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Can a Denied Lot Still Get a Septic Permit in NC?

Short answer: yes — more often than most people realize. A lot that was denied for a conventional septic system is not necessarily unbuildable. It means the county health department evaluated the soil and site conditions under the standard rules and couldn’t approve a gravity-fed trench system. But under North Carolina’s current regulatory framework —...

North Carolina Septic System Permitting Updates

An update on North Carolina Private Septic System Options: North Carolina has recently passed two new avenues for obtaining an expedited septic permit.  The first option is Session Law 2022-11. Click here to view the State’s guidance document and/or legislation. This is truly ground breaking legislation as it allows the North Carolina Licensed Soil Scientist...

Land Purchasing Process in Western North Carolina

Are you in the process of purchasing land in Western North Carolina? Or are you in the due diligence process? Perhaps you already own land and are looking into getting your building permits to build a new residential home or a larger commercial project? Does the property in question not have access to a municipal...

Working with Land Resource Management

What a professional and trusted company Land Resource Management is to work with!  We were new to raw land development and knew nothing about septic systems, how they work or that there were different types.  So, we went to the county to get a permit and they came out, dug about 4-5  pits and said, yes, we...

Asheville’s Real Estate Market Continues to Boom

The Asheville, North Carolina real estate market continues to be hot. This lends itself to very busy times for the area’s architects, engineers, surveyors, builders, and soil scientists. Land Resource Management (LRM) continues to ride the churning real estate wave throughout Western North Carolina.   Below is a recent success story from one of our architectural clients. This...

What is a Soil Scientist?

To understand what we do best is to understand what we are first. We are Soil Scientist. We don’t wear lab coats or stand over microscopes in a stuffy lab. Our lab coats look like jeans and flannels while our lab is the great outdoors of western NC and upstate SC. A soil scientist is a...

What is a Percolation Test, aka “Perk Test”?

A percolation test, or “perk” test consists of digging one or more holes in the soil of the proposed septic drainfield to a specified depth, presoaking the holes, then running the test by filling the holes to a specific level and timing the drop of the water level as the water percolates into the surrounding soil....

Successful Real Estate Transactions

Land Resource Management thrives and survives on successful real estate transactions. Whether we’re consulting with a landowner on how to best develop their land parcel, or overseeing and executing a wastewater system for a recently purchased property, we’re all about facilitating successful real estate transactions for our customers. Below is some recent customer feedback we received from two clients...

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