Dumping at Home
I considered putting this on the multi-page Dump Station Observations topic, but maybe I’ll just let that sleeping dog lie. You guys have actually been a source of amusement and encouragement to m...
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Lynnmor wrote:JRscooby wrote:
False! With the right soil for the lateral field, a properly sized, built and used system does not need pumped, and will not "foul the area", and never need pumped.
The underground tank holds water and bacteria that breaks down the sewage to nutrients. The liquid bearing the nutrients is dispersed over a area and vegetation uses the water and nutrients.
What happen to the stuff pumped out of the tanks? It is dumped into another system that is hopefully big enough, and maintained well enough to break it down. And the expensive part of that maintenance is removing stuff that should never be in it.
This might help you. On second thought, I guess not.
For a couple of hundred years septic systems have been used that did not need pumped, did not need pumps to work. But they did not dump snot in there to kill the bacteria. In a lot of rural areas of the country, systems where put in half a century or longer back, and have never needed any attention other than watch what is but in.
