Approved!

    We finished up the framing and the subcontractors started roughing in the plumbing and the electrical.  We started to design our septic field and well system, when our engineer asked me about the fire hydrants on our street.  I told him that everyone in our neighborhood has wells, and that the town of Sharon does not have water service on our section of Bay Rd.  Turns out, since our road is the town line between Sharon and Stoughton (our house is in Sharon, but across the street is the town of Stoughton), the town of Stoughton put a waterline on the other side of the street when they worked on the road a couple of years ago so that they could add the fire hydrants.  I applied for a permit connect to Stoughton's water system and the permit was approved.
     This means, that we don't have to dig a new well or deal with the pump system.  Also, when you have a well, you have a lot of restrictions about how close you can put a septic system to that well, thus limiting the places that we could put the septic.  Now, we can put the septic anywhere that the ground perks, so its time to call the excavator.

     We dug two holes on the opposite side of the driveway from the house, and sure enough the soil was nice and sandy just like the soil behind the house. Here is a video of the guys digging the pits for the tests.

  We passed the test , so now we can design the septic system and get the water connected before it gets too cold.