borg wrote:
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We have decent soil absorbtion here in Florida and they don't do
perculation tests, rather they say that the hight above sea level is
the perculation test. This makes no since as soil absorbtion would
have nothing to do with height above sea level, ...

In your portion of FL probably has virtually everything to do with it,
being a good indication of distance to water table...

ps. A spell checker w/ your newsreader wouldn't be a bad idea...

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