You want the water or wastewater coming from those trenches or that drain field to travel through at speed sufficient to move from the site because we don't want water to accumulate, but yet we need to balance that with treatment.

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This is Senior Editor Patrick McComb. I'm joined by Dr. Eric Severson.

He's an extensive associate in the wastewater management training program at North Carolina

State University.

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Dr. Eric, it is such a pleasure to have you on this show. I made an appeal to our listeners

to put us in touch with a soil scientist and they recommended you. And first off, like I ask

everybody, are you healthy? Is family okay? Are you

able to work normally? What's going on? We're healthy and wealthy is optional. Wise is optional,

but we're healthy and we are operating under the new normal, which is the remote sense.

We're trying to put things online as much as we can. And, you know,

we're trying to tell work as much as we can where the kids are taking online school. So that's,

that's been a new challenge. So we're making it. Have you heard if your kids will be going back

to school in the fall yet? They have an option, we go year-round here,

so they have an option to go back July 17th, and that's the debate now, you know, whether

or not to send them back, you know, they need the socialization, but we also need them to stay

healthy and us to stay healthy. Sure. Can you please tell me about the university program that you're part of and what you do there?

Yeah, I am the training director of a wastewater management program that has been developed years prior to me being here.

So I was actually a grad student in C. State back from 01 to 05, so I took an extra couple years.

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