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Old 05-24-2016, 09:47 PM
 
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How did it go?

How much?
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Old 05-25-2016, 07:01 AM
 
Location: vegas
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in MA its about 25K
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Old 05-25-2016, 02:30 PM
 
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Rabbit,

You don't have city sewers? How do you do a septic system in Caliche?
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Old 05-25-2016, 04:59 PM
 
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Rabbit,

You don't have city sewers? How do you do a septic system in Caliche?
Actually, quite a number of people in NW Las Vegas and East Las Vegas have septic. The county's sewer system doesn't go north of Sahara. So, in order for folks that technically live in a Clark County "island", not Las Vegas proper, Las Vegas has long required them to request annexation to the City of Las Vegas before allowing them to hook up to Las Vegas's sewer system. That means they have to pay more taxes, even though they really just want (and are willing to pay for) sewer service. SB 481, passed in 2015, prohibited Las Vegas from doing that, but they still did.

Anyway, caliche isn't consistently cement. It can be crumbly too, which means the septic would be fairly easy to install. It takes a site evaluation and soils testing in order to tell.
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Old 05-25-2016, 06:50 PM
 
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Rabbit,

You don't have city sewers? How do you do a septic system in Caliche?
Running on old septic, building a new house so I need new septic to meet codes. I live right on an island on Henderson with a good 900 feet to the sewer main.
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Old 05-25-2016, 06:52 PM
 
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Great background history! Thanks dude.

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Actually, quite a number of people in NW Las Vegas and East Las Vegas have septic. The county's sewer system doesn't go north of Sahara. So, in order for folks that technically live in a Clark County "island", not Las Vegas proper, Las Vegas has long required them to request annexation to the City of Las Vegas before allowing them to hook up to Las Vegas's sewer system. That means they have to pay more taxes, even though they really just want (and are willing to pay for) sewer service. SB 481, passed in 2015, prohibited Las Vegas from doing that, but they still did.

Anyway, caliche isn't consistently cement. It can be crumbly too, which means the septic would be fairly easy to install. It takes a site evaluation and soils testing in order to tell.
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Old 05-25-2016, 09:26 PM
 
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That's interesting. I read that most houses in metro Vegas don't have basements because digging through the Caliche was problematic. So I figured septic systems would be equally problematic.

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Actually, quite a number of people in NW Las Vegas and East Las Vegas have septic. The county's sewer system doesn't go north of Sahara. So, in order for folks that technically live in a Clark County "island", not Las Vegas proper, Las Vegas has long required them to request annexation to the City of Las Vegas before allowing them to hook up to Las Vegas's sewer system. That means they have to pay more taxes, even though they really just want (and are willing to pay for) sewer service. SB 481, passed in 2015, prohibited Las Vegas from doing that, but they still did.

Anyway, caliche isn't consistently cement. It can be crumbly too, which means the septic would be fairly easy to install. It takes a site evaluation and soils testing in order to tell.
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Old 05-25-2016, 11:06 PM
 
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Other than the concrete tank, you don't have to go deep with the drainage field.

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That's interesting. I read that most houses in metro Vegas don't have basements because digging through the Caliche was problematic. So I figured septic systems would be equally problematic.
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Old 05-25-2016, 11:16 PM
 
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I thought in most places in the LV Valley, the Caliche came right to the surface.

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Other than the concrete tank, you don't have to go deep with the drainage field.
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Old 05-26-2016, 12:03 AM
 
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You'd need a huge lot (I'd guess at least .75 acre) to support the new leach field and still meet setback requirements. Typically the leach field is what goes "bad".

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I thought in most places in the LV Valley, the Caliche came right to the surface.
There are many areas of the valley with little to no caliche. I've personally never ran into any of it.
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