Developing a Septic System Owner's Guide February 6, 2024 By Katelyn McLaughlin Decentralized Wastewater, Onsite free resource, free tool, septic system guide, septic system owner guide 0 The Community Septic Owner's Guide online tool is designed to develop an Owner's Guide for everything from a single-family home, a commercial property, or even a cluster system serving 50+ homes. It was funded by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture and created by the University of Minnesota. Some key things to keep in mind about this tool are: You will need to register if you are using the tool for the first time It contains generic stock/boiler plate general information, system component descriptions and images, and operations and maintenance (O&M) recommendations It allows you to upload site specific descriptions, images, and O&M recommendations It will produce a PDF guide for your home or structure to be used electronically or printed out It allows you to start and stop a project during the process and update it years later when things change It does NOT cover every scenario that exists across the US, but the creators of the tool hope it covers a vast majority of them Comments are closed.