Many homes in the Poconos have elevated sand mounds for septic systems with shallow soil. Sand mounds are required when the soil profile is less than sixty inches deep. Most homeowners plant grass on ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s website, epa.gov, one in five houses in ...

It came to my attention on a quiet summer day in 1989 — heavy trucks were rolling down the dirt road. Trees were being cut down; stumps, bulldozed. Twenty truckloads of sand and gravel were brought in ...

Dickerson resident George Worthington doesn’t envision a giant residential subdivision on his 137-acre property in the Agricultural Reserve. The lifelong Montgomery County resident bought just 10 ...