Woodhull School Septic System on Radar
The septic system at Woodhull Intermediate School “acted-up” earlier this month just as students were arriving for the day. Since then, the system has been on the radar of the Huntington School District’s buildings and grounds department.
Following a call from the school, the district’s maintenance staff quickly arrived on the scene and located the septic tank and distribution pool, both of which were full. “We contacted Antorino Cesspool Company, which responded and removed 40,000 gallons of waste,” said Paul Rispoli, the district’s director of facilities. “To my knowledge, this is the first time the system has been serviced in the last 30 years.”
School officials have described the Woodhull system as “massive” in size. “With the thought of additional students and staff attending Woodhull next year, we looked at the original plans to determine its capacity,” Mr. Rispoli said. “The septic system was designed to accommodate 1,120 students, well over the anticipated enrollment for next year.”
“There are fifteen cesspools on the property,” explained David H. Grackin, assistant superintendent for finance and management services. “Over the next month we will make sure that they are all working properly. Some waste lines need to be replaced. This will be accomplished by our maintenance staff over the next several weeks.”
Superintendent John J. Finello said that in the aftermath of the back-up and blocked lines, it was discovered that many of the system’s pools are completely empty, due to the failure of lines between the pools. Those lines will be changed in order to bring the system back to its full capacity.
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