Septic System Improvement Estimator.

The Septic System Improvement Estimator is a spreadsheet-based model developed in Minnesota for the Board of Water and Soil Resources (BWSR) which estimates annual pollutant loads from problematic septic systems and accounts for the benefits of a range of septic system improvement, educational efforts and programs to identify the problematic systems. This paper will discuss why it was developed, the background data that supports the removal estimates, how to use the tool and the resulting data.