Septic tie in
My septic cleanout is only about 25' off my driveway. Usually I pull in the yard to access it with my slinky. I am considering running an extension to the corner of the house next to the driveway. It'...
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Just be careful when dumping into a residential septic system, it's way too easy to over top the baffles with a sudden large volume of inflow.
A residential septic system is designed to take no more than about 6 gallons of 'stuff' and introduced away (usually opposite to) the baffle between primary and secondary chambers.
When you dump nearly 10 times that much at once you run the very real risk of flushing 'stuff' out into the tile field itself. Clogging the tile can be spendy to fix.
A residential septic system is designed to take no more than about 6 gallons of 'stuff' and introduced away (usually opposite to) the baffle between primary and secondary chambers.
When you dump nearly 10 times that much at once you run the very real risk of flushing 'stuff' out into the tile field itself. Clogging the tile can be spendy to fix.
