Individual septic for each mobile home good or bad?

[Steven M.]

You may have seen my other posts in here related to a small mobile home park with 1 ranch home and 5 mobile homes.

I have been waiting on the information regarding the septic design of this property for months. I have finally got them in my hands ( straight from the state of Maines website) and now realize I have no idea really what I am looking at! (I half joke)

It appears each home has its own 1000gl septic tank and leach field. My initial question is… Is it good or bad to have individual septic for each mobile vs one big central unit??

[Roger D Jones]

No real worries here.  Actually for me it is an upside to have indivdual systems so you can monitor tenant behaviors.  Point being we have all our tanks pumped  and inspected on a cycle every four years.  If the pumper pulls out inappropriate material you can address with tenant.  We also had a baffle get jammed and when we pumped the tank found all kinds of things.  We made the tenant pay for the pumping.

Also... ask the Health Dept if they have had any repairs on the system.  They will have it on file.  These 'systems' can be intimidating certainly for a new park owner but you have the simplest system there is and if something gets haywire you can get it fixed.  Do your homework but don't worry or overthink it.