We had two surprises today. We have been expecting the drain field to be installed every day this week only to be disappointed each day. We were told it is a one day install and that the critical distribution box has been elusively unavailable. This morning we decided not to go over to the lot first thing in the morning because we were again expecting to find no excavator. The framers work four 10 hour days, and take Friday's off, so we thought we would go to the lot just before quitting time for the framers. That way we could touch base with Craig, the foreman, and review any questions or concerns, see the progress for ourselves, then return to the RV. When we arrived, we were surprised by additional piles of dirt/river rocks on the lot. Sure enough it was the drain field which had been installed. Therefore we didn't get any photos of the drain field going in, we just captured the resulting job ready for the County inspector before being completely recovered. The second surprise is that our neighbor's excavator was on site trenching in their electric service across our property.
Below Gari checks out the new piles of dirt, which is the drain field installation.
The shot below shows the small but elusive distribution box, the 1500 gallon septic tank and Gari in the distance placing a locating stake where the main septic line will go into the future house.
A Close up of the distribution box.
Inside and out!
Open Distribution box.
The view below is the inside of the septic tank, displaying the effluent (or output) baffle. The effluent enters the baffle from the bottom pipe which will be located in the clear waste water of the tank. The sludge solids sink to the bottom of the tank, the "grease" floats to the top of the waste water, which will stay just below the top of the baffle or the vent. This way only the clearest water will exit the septic tank and enter the drain field.
Below is a shot of the two "Infiltrator" drain field chamber branches. The chambers are a half pipe about 2.5 ft across. No bottoms are in the chambers, and the arched tops form a chamber underneath where the waste water enters and then percolates into the soil. No gravel is required for these systems and the chamber sections are 5 ft long and snap together end to end. Because of this design the install is much faster and costs significantly less. We are told they work fine and read the same in reviews. We will see how well they work in time. 
The entire septic system below. 
Bella introduces the second surprise below from her seat in the side by side.
Gari walks over to observe the neighbor's electric service trench. Last week we agreed to an easement for our neighbor to run underground electric service across our lot. We didn't expect to see the neighbor's excavator for a couple more weeks, but it turned out that today was the day. The trench will start from our transformer, where a primary extension will originate and run to our neighbor's transformer about 400 ft away. Let's see what it looks like below.
Below the trench runs along the other neighbor's fence on our shared property line and continues south and onto our neighbor's property who is getting the service.
Below is a shot of the excavator and his friend, Glenn and Kevin. Both guys are also our neighbors and really good guys.
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