Composting or cassette toilet. Who gas one ?

travelnutz wrote:
CavemanCharlie,

So wrong! Drain fields usually have 8" to 12" of dirt over them. I have 2 of them here, another at our place up north in Michigan, and had one in Florida near WPB. NONE have even as much as 12" of dirt over the stones. My brother in Jupiter Florida just west of I-95 also has one at his very expensive home with 1-3/4 acres of fenced in property they had built 13 years ago. No way could you have the drain field any deeper as it would be flooded because the water table is so high. Actually, the dirt was added on top of his drain field as the top of it was level with the surrounding ground before the dirt was spread on top of it. The water table is so high in most of South Florida that you cannot drain the water out of an in ground pool because the pool will pop out of the ground from the very high water table. The sealed pool becomes a boat hull and floats! You in Minnesota do not have this problem.

BTW, just how far down in the ground do you think the top of your septic tank is if you have one. All of ours are 3" to 4" under the surface as I've scrapped the dirt off to get to the approx 2' X 2' lid and had them pumped when needed or every 5-8 years. Just 2 of us living in the places as we are long retired, like 17 years now. If more people are living there and adding sewage means more often having it pumped out.

You could be right about the Drain Field. I don't have one. I know where my septic tank is and yes, the lid is only a few inches down. The top of the tank is a couple of feet down. But, it's 6-7 feet tall ! I know this because I had to run a new water line to the house and the line runs under the corner of the septic tank. I have pumped my tank once. Was about 25 years ago. We have pumped my brothers a couple of times over the decades. They are not full to the top you know. The liquid drain is down a few feet on the side of them.