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On-Site Wastewater Disposal Research in the United States

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Alternative Wastewater Treatment

Part of the book series: Water Science and Technology Library ((WSTL,volume 1))

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During the previous decade concern for the problems of rural America was elevated to a level that the U.S. Congress directed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) to conduct research to control water pollution in rural areas through the development of new and improved alternatives to conventional gravity sewers and septic tank - soil disposal systems. This concern was due to demographic trends which showed reversal of the historic migration from rural to urban areas and a belated realization that conventional urban sewage collection technologies were inappropriate and uneconomical for rural applications. Also, the limitations of the conventional rural wastewater technology, i.e. the septic tank - soil absorption system (ST-SAS) influenced the lawmakers’ charge to the Agency.

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  1. Urban Systems Management Section, Municipal Environmental Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45268, USA

    James F. Kreissl (Sanitary Engineer/Program Manager)

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  1. Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA), P.O. Box 333, Blindern, Oslo 3, Norway

    Arild Schanke Eikum

  2. Department of Civil Engineering Environmental Engineering & Science, University of Washington, FX-10, Seattle, Washington, 98195, USA

    Robert W. Seabloom

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Kreissl, J.F. (1982). On-Site Wastewater Disposal Research in the United States. In: Eikum, A.S., Seabloom, R.W. (eds) Alternative Wastewater Treatment. Water Science and Technology Library, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7849-2_4

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