Pond Hill Farm
Overview
Pond Hill Farm is a popular stop along the “Tunnel of Trees”. Families come to catch trout in their pond, eat at the café, taste wine and beer and enjoy produce – most especially the pumpkin extravaganza during the fall color season.
Challenge
Pond Hill was in a crisis. Tourists were enjoying sorting through the thousands of pumpkins, but they had unknowingly been placed right over the septic field. When the field failed, raw waste surfaced and contaminated the pumpkins. The company had to issue a recall, a PR disaster.
Solution
SludgeHammer™ installed Aerobic Bacterial Generators (ABG) in the existing septic tanks quickly curing the leach field failure. But, the farm was expanding and needed a more comprehensive ongoing solution. The treatment capacity was expanded with extra tanks and SludgeHammer™ units. The result was the successful creation of a new, 3,000 sq.ft. drip irrigation field system for the advanced treated effluent.
Results
The new advanced treatment design was able to take advantage of the bottomless tanks by cementing them in so they could add capacity. New septic tanks were added and a directional drill engaged to deliver the effluent under the parking lot towards a hill at the back of the property where an engineered subsurface drip field was installed. The hillside has been accepting the entire wastewater discharge without any issues for 5 years and is expected to continue indefinitely.
