The Company just received a copy of the Virginia Department of Health’s approval of a design for an alternative onsite sewage system for a homeowner in Fauquier County which will use a “constructed wetland” for the disposal of the clear liquid effluent produced by the system. This is the second approval for the disposal method considered until recently experimental, though it has been a preferred method of effluent disposal in Europe for a number of years. The first such system installed by Enviro-Klean was approved in 2008 and has been in operation for more than a year between the I-64 exit at Ferncliff and Kents Store.
Company President Mike Clark says he sees constructed wetlands as an ever more
preferred system of effluent disposal as people discover the superior environmental nature of the process.
“Using wetlands we not only take care of the liquid effluent in an efficient manner,” Clark said, “ but we eliminate the migration of nitrates – the culprit in clogging our streams and Chesapeake Bay with oxygen-killing algae, as the exotic plants in the wetlands cell devour those nitrates onsite.”