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Here is our Directory List of Alternative Septic System Products, for wet sites, steep sites, rocky sites, limited space, and other difficult site conditions. Readers should also see our Septic Component & Product Suppliers for basic septic system compnents like septic tanks and pumps. This chapter provides information about alternative septic system products such as aerobic septic systems, septic filters, gravelless septic systems and other products for onsite, wastewater management. Alternative onsite wastewater disposal system products can reduce the soil absorption area or leach field size requirement substantially and can in fact in some cases reduce the needed area to zero.

Some of these alternative septic system products can produce effluent which is more sanitary than the groundwater in the area where the effluent is being discharged. For problem sites where space or soil conditions make it difficult to install a conventional leach field these designs are very important alternatives. Qualified product or service providers may be listed at this website at no fee.

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ALTERNATIVE SEPTIC PRODUCTS - Alternative Onsite Waste Disposal (Septic System) Materials & Products

Aerobic Septic System Products

A list of suppliers of aerobic septic system equipment is maintained at Aerobic Treatment Unit Suppliers for a list of aerobic septic system treatment unit suppliers. Aerobic Septic Systems - Aerobic Treatment Units or ATUs are discussed in detail at Aerobic Septic Systems A Design Alternative for Difficult Sites

Alternative Septic System Product Suppliers

• ALTERNATIVE SEPTIC PRODUCTS provides at Directory of Alternative Design Septic Product Suppliers
• American Wastewater Systems aerobic treatment units
• BioNest biological filtration for wastewater treatment using a microbial culture fixed to a non-biodegradable media. Underground system.
• Bord Na Mona Environmental peat bio-filtration systems
• Cajunaire Wastewater Treatment Systems, 500 gpd to 1000 gpd ATU systems, aerobic sprinkler systems, wastewater pumps, wastewater disinfection systems including chlorination and UV light: from H. E. McGrew, Louisiana
• Clivus Multrum wastewater treatment/disposal systems include their composting toilet and greywater irrigation systems
• Consolidated Treatment Systems including suspended media treatment systems, aerobic wastewater treatment systems, and reactor vessel wastewater treatment systems.
• Delta Environmental low pressure sewer systems (for example to pump and treat wastewater up and away from lakefront properties) offers grinder pump systems and related products
• Ecological Tanks manufactures four-chamber (Pretreatment, Aeration, Clarifier, Pumping) Aqua Aire Aerobic Wastewater Treatment Units and Aqua Safe Aerobic Treatment Plants in both fiberglass and concrete to NSF 40 Standards
• Environment One grinder pump sewer systems for difficult sites and capable of pumping against high head pressures.
• Hoot Aerobic Systems including ATUs, blowers, controls, disinfection systems, and wastewater treatment monitoring systems. Louisiana.
• Malibu Water Resources provides the Koenders Aerobic Aerator along with a diffuser.
• MicroSepTec offers the "EnviroServer" which, depending on the system size, treats 600 to 2500 gpd. of sewage. This is a a packaged wastewater treatment system comprised of a "hybrid fixed film-suspended growth extended aeration wastewater treatment system with a two stage biological process to optimize denitrification"
  Check out their animated explanation of how this system works.
• Norweco: Singulair aerobic systems, Modulair packaged wastewater treatment systems, total nitrogen treatment systems, wastewater treatment controls, wastewater and graywater filter systems,effluent pumps, pumping stations, dechlorination tablets, disinfection systems, other products
• Orenco Systems: effluent pumps, advanced treatment units, sand filters, recirculating sand filters, shallow gravelless systems, wastewater treatment monitoring systems
• Piranha septic systems use an aerobic bacterial generator placed directly into the septic tank and a patented bacterial culture. [I question the claim by this company that septic tank pumping is eliminated.]
• Pro Flo Areobic septic systems says that their system is "capable of turning regular household sewage into a clear odorless liquid within 24 hours"
• South Texas Environmental sells various types of septic pumps including aerobic air pumps for aerobic septic systems, other pumps, aerators, diffusers, control panels, and compressors.
• Pond Expo Alita brand aeration pumps for ponds and other aeration systems
• NSF International, The Public Health and Safety Company, a not-for-profit, non-governmental organization, maintains a list of wastewater treatment unit manufacturers and may offer other products and advice for ATU's and other onsite wastewater treatment methods.
• Tafgard soil based wastewater treatment systems - developed in Japan by Taisei Kogyo Co., Ltd., this system uses a combination of a five-chamber waste treating septic tank designed by Taisei, effluent disposed-of by an evaporation-transpiration system through aerated soil (effluent spread horizontally and upwards from distribution piping).
  
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Septic Effluent Distribution Products

• Geoflow subsurface drip systems offer uniform effluent distribution and piping clog resistance for placing clarified effluent into an absorption system.
• Tafgard soil based wastewater treatment systems - developed in Japan by Taisei Kogyo Co., Ltd., this system uses a combination of a five-chamber waste treating septic tank designed by Taisei, effluent disposed-of by an evaporation-transpiration system through aerated soil (effluent spread horizontally and upwards from distribution piping).
  

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• Septic Treatments Additives discusses the objections to septic chemicals and additives for septic tank "maintenance", drain field un-clogging, etc.
• Septic Tanks - Polyurethane plastic FRALO "makes the world's strongest poly septic tank with a 50 year guarantee!" www.fralo.net
• MicroSepTec advanced residential/light-commercial onsite wastewater treatment, pre-engineered, cost effective, environmentally friendly. Meets requirements of owners, designers, health departments. Replacement for failed septic systems. Free consult. 949-855-3500 949-855-3515 fax. E-mail: dvana@microseptec.com
• Septic Tank Heaters In some places it may be necessary to keep a septic tank warm to work properly. HST has a new low voltage heater that is attached to the outside of the tank. [Thanks to Neil Grosz for this tip.]
• Tafgard soil based wastewater evaporation / transpiration system by Taisei Kogyo Co., Ltd., Japan. Contact Shuichi Sato, Manager of Taisei Kogyo Co., Ltd., 15-36 Yonehara 6-chome, Yonago, Tottori, 683-0804 Japan Tel. +81-859-32-1135 Fax. +81-859-34-0933, info@taisei-wastewater.jp
• Tipton Environmental International developed a high efficient wastewater treatment system that will produce the quality of effluent our environment requires. This effluent can then be used for garden water, irrigation, gray water systems or many other applications.
  
  
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Directory Lists of Septic System Parts & Supplies

• Aerobic Septic System Products Directory List
• Alternative Septic System Product Suppliers List
• Filters, Septic Filters & Wastewater Treatment Systems Using Filtration Methods Products Directory
• Gravelless Leach Field Septic Systems Products Directory List
• Septic Effluent Distribution Products Directory List
• Toilets, Composting Toilets, Biological Toilets, No-water/Low water toilets, Waterless toilets, Chemical Toilets, Inicnerating Toilets and related products list
• Other Septic Wastewater Treatment Products List
• Plumbers & Septic Repair Companies List
• Septic Tanks septic tank suppliers

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