WasteWater Education. Part 2. Regulator Training Geoflow Sub Surface Drip Dispersal Treatment

The Regulators Guide to Assessing the Sub Surface Drip Dispersal Site During Installation.
Presenter: Rodney Ruskin. CEO Geoflow, Inc.
Rodney has a B.S. from the University of Cape Town, and M.S. from Harvard, GSAS, Division of Engineering and Applied Physics.

He founded Agriplas, in South Africa in 1969, to develop drip irrigation technology. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1972. In 1975, in partnership with Netafim, he started Agrifim Irrigation International. In 1985 he started Geoflow to develop subsurface drip irrigation dispersal (SDD) technology. SDD is used for landscape, agriculture and wastewater dispersal and re-use incorporating the ROOTGUARD technology. Rodney holds twelve patents covering drip irrigation technology and has published numerous technical papers. He maintains Memberships in: Irrigation Association, American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, Water Environment Federation, Society of Plastics Engineers, National Onsite Wastewater Recycling Association, California Onsite Wastewater Association and Washington Onsite Sewage Association.

If a SDD system is designed and installed correctly it will work -- if not, it will fail.

This series of 90 minute seminars will demonstrate the critical factors of design, site selection, installation, and O&M that Regulators and engineers must monitor to ensure success.

Appreciating the time constraints, and work loads, most environmental health officials have to schedule around is the rationale for breaking this series in to three parts.

Subsurface drip systems solve many of the problems that plague traditional methods of wastewater dispersal. Since the effluent is dispersed underground where it is absorbed in the biologically active soil layer, there is no surface contamination, no ponding, no run-off problems, no bad smells. Dose scheduling is unaffected by land use or weather, and it is a politically and environmentally favorable means of dispersing wastewater.

With subsurface drip, primary or secondary reclaimed wastewater can be used, eliminating the ongoing cost of additional effluent treatment for commercial, municipal, industrial, residential and agricultural applications.

Resources referenced were:
http://www.drought.gov
   • Drought Tough on Frogs and Salamanders  
http://www.usgs.gov/education.html
   • Water Movement in Soil  
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr/2000/00...
http://geoflow.com/wastewater/publish...