BJSoftware News for Sewers Users

We have been charging the same $30 per design since Sewers was first released for licensing 20 years ago, back in 2000. Our costs (development software licensing, insurance, web servers, etc.) have gone up considerably over that time to the point where we have to decide whether to quit, work at a loss, or raise prices. I feel obligated to keep going and we can’t provide this service at a loss, so we are raising our prices. Effective August 1, 2020, the new price will be $50 per design.

Sewers now includes Eljen GSF (Geotextile Sand Filter) mound systems. Manifold placement options (either end or center) and shallow limiting zones (< 20") are supported. At this time only pumped systems are supported.

For those of you who are having trouble finding the newly relocated PDF capabilities…

Click the “Print…” button on the design viewer. The old print dialog now has an option to choose between a printer or to save as a PDF. If you choose “Print to PDF” you will get another dialog when you click the “Print” button to choose a place to save the PDFs.

At version 2018.09.09 there are three changes of note:

• Printing to PDFs has been merged with the regular printing routine, so the “Print to PDF…” button is gone.
• The FD siphons have been updated. Some new 2″ ones have been added. Also, when the dose is high due to delivery line volume the software attempts to reduce the delivery line diameter according to manufacturer’s instructions. The factors that will trigger the attempt are: using a 3″ or 4″ siphon (they both have a 4″ discharge) and the minimum dose required due to the volume of the delivery line is larger than the dose would otherwise be (siphons require a 3 minute runtime, so often that is the culprit). The software then verifies that the friction does not cause more head than available before settling on a new diameter, if a smaller one will work at all. Friction is such a big issue because siphons have larger flow rates due to the larger lateral hole sizes required.
• We have added Norweco’s Singulair 960 Hydro-Kinetic Bio-Film Reactor (HKBFR) systems discharged into at-grade beds.

Expect another big system type addition in the next week or two.

The new EC7 series of Ecoflos has been added to Sewers, including the new Pack systems (single unit handling septic, filter, and dose).

We’ve added a pre-pay option to Sewers to work around the issues with PayPal. Now you can pre-load your account to avoid using PayPal through Sewers. You can either send us a check or pay through the “Pay license fees” link on BJSoftware.com.

The payment is credited to your account manually, so it may take a little time for it to enable.

A few users have been having trouble purchasing through PayPal. If you get an “invalid transaction” message from PayPal, close Sewers, go to Internet Options in the Control Panel and delete your cookies (for most systems: click the Delete… button in the Browsing History section on the General tab, check Cookies and Website Data and then click the Delete button).

The problem saving to PDF in the previous version has been fixed at version 2015.05.29.

The latest version of Sewers now contains all of the new Ecoflo Coco systems. That”s the good news.

The bad news is that the “Print to PDF” feature is not working properly since the update. It’s forcing the page size to be too wide and consequently the report won’t print correctly. I’m working on a fix, but it might take a little while as the print to PDF code is not all mine. A work around is to use a PDF print driver instead.

Sewers has been updated to the latest (Feb 2014) guidance for at-grade discharge as of version 2014.06.03.