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 ...

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 ...

ROCHESTER -- Council on Aging members wondered last night if the park commissioners completed a percolation test on property for which both groups have projects planned. Jill Bodeau, a spokeswoman for ...

Can a house lot go through decades of failing percolation tests, and then pass the test to will allow the land to be built upon? A number of concerned residents presented that question and more to the ...

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 ...

LAKEVILLE -- Town officials residents and developers sounded off last night about the possibility of relaxing Lakeville's percolation test regulations. Percolation tests determine the rate at which ...

Penn Forest Township supervisors last night awarded contracts for part of the work necessary to retest 124 properties where sewer enforcement officials must determine for a second time whether the ...

A new charge of £50 is being introduced to fund the cost associated with Council employees carrying out percolation tests on behalf of planning applicants. The charge on percolation tests was a bone ...

The Frederick County Department of Health has canceled percolation tests for 134 building lots due to severe drought conditions, forcing property owners to wait an entire year until they can develop ...