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Ponte Vedra septic service where the yard gets more water than the house
Large lots, heavy irrigation and serious landscaping put a load on drain fields that has nothing to do with what happens indoors.
Ponte Vedra at a glance
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- big irrigation systems and constant pressure
Water in
Wells in Ponte Vedra: big irrigation systems and constant pressure
Ponte Vedra's wells are irrigation wells, and they are large ones: landscape systems with a dozen zones on lots where the lawn is the largest single water use. The well has to carry the biggest zone on the controller and recover between them, and a constant-pressure controller that holds one pressure across every zone is fitted more often here than anywhere else in the service area.
The Floridan limestone is deep on the coast, so an irrigation bore that goes past the shallow zone to avoid iron staining on pale hardscape is a real investment, and it is decided with a test rather than a guess.
Waste out
What septic systems in Ponte Vedra are actually up against
A drain field works by handing effluent to unsaturated soil. Irrigation that runs on a timer over that same ground removes the unsaturated part, and the field loses capacity for reasons that never show up in the house. It is the most avoidable cause of failure in this part of St. Johns County.
Landscaping does the rest. Beds, borders, ornamental trees and hardscape are frequently placed over trenches by crews who had no idea where the field was, and the first anyone hears about it is when a line collapses under a new patio or roots reach a joint.
The systems themselves are often newer and well built, which is precisely why the failures here tend to be site management rather than equipment. Knowing where the field runs, and keeping water and weight off it, buys years.
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Permits and paperwork in St. Johns County
St. Johns County permitting runs through the county health department for both the septic system and the well, and on coastal parcels the separation between the bottom of the drain field and the wet season water table is the number that decides whether a conventional system fits or a mound design is required. Who issues what in St. Johns County.
Straight answers
Ponte Vedra well and septic questions
Why fit constant pressure on an irrigation well?
So a small zone and a large zone both run at the pressure the heads were designed for, without the pump short cycling on the small one.
Does lawn irrigation really affect a septic system?
Yes, when it runs over the drain field. Saturated soil cannot accept effluent, and a field that is being watered from above has less capacity for what arrives from below.
What can be planted over a field?
Shallow-rooted grass. Not trees, not large shrubs, and not anything requiring regular deep watering.
Well and septic service in Ponte Vedra
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