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Almot
May 17, 2016Explorer III
mlts22 wrote:
When I was in biology class, I learned that if stuff doesn't get oxygen, it decomposes ...very... slowly, so the bugs that will make people sick would remain in the soil for a long time.
Yes, it decomposes faster with aerobic bacteria. "Legal" septic tanks are made anaerobic only because North American bureaucrats, hand in hand with under-educated and over-emancipated suburbia have decreed the foul smell a greater evil than the actual contamination :)... Thus the drainfield has to work twice as harder.
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