An Iowa Farming Community Shapes Its Decentralized Wastewater Future

A complex mix of individual and cluster systems helps Rowan, Iowa, clean up the environment and serve the treatment needs of homes and businesses for generations to come.

An Iowa Farming Community Shapes Its Decentralized Wastewater Future

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...

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