A: For a true percolation test, often done during construction or installation of a septic system, a hole approximately 1 foot in width and depth is dug. Once filled with water, if it drains at a rate ...

A potential change in the “perc testing” policy in Upper Milford Township may mean more problems and delays for people who want to build homes. Perc testing is the state-required examination of soil ...

ROBESON – Planners discussed On July 7 the necessity of a percolation test for a septic system in a subdivision that was not currently being developed. Brothers Gerald and Lawrence Yocum came before ...

Carroll’s Bureau of Environmental Health plans to establish a program that would allow private companies to perform soil percolation tests to supplement county soil testing services. The arrangement ...

The Charles County Department of Health has begun wet season percolation testing in all areas of the county. The Department’s Environmental Health Division staff conducts perc tests which are needed ...