Southern California High Desert
Southern California High Desert: When Your Septic Problem Is a Rock, Not a Soil In the Mojave and the Inland Empire’s high desert communities, homeowners often discover their septic constraint the hard way: a shovel or a soil auger hits something that feels like concrete, a foot or two down. That’s caliche — a hardened layer of soil cemented together by calcium carbonate, and it behaves nothing like the clay or sand most septic guidance assumes you’re dealing with. What…