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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pkunk wrote:
Oh, really? Where does the 30+ gals of bathtub water go? How about 2 showers going at the same time? 2.5gpm x 2 x 10 min = 50 gals
Happens all the time with our system and just a 1000 gal tank. Leach line is in good shape after 35 years.JaxDad wrote:
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.
30+ gallons? Really? A 5' tub is 42 gallons to the overflow drain, 50% of that with a person in it.
Straight water, like from a bathtub or shower, and introduced slowly, like after a long run of pipe, is very different that 100 gallons of 'stuff' straight into the tank like the OP stated.
But we're not changing the subject right?
