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Many homes in Rowan, Iowa, were converted from a community collections system to individual gravity-flow tanks feeding a drainfield on the property. Wieser Precast Steps tanks were used, as well as Orenco Systems risers and Orenco Systems and Polylok lids.
Rowan, Iowa, is a small community of just over 150 people, but a few years ago it confronted a big change. The state required the upgrade of all the wastewater systems serving the city because effluent was flowing into a field tile that emptied into a creek about a quarter mile...