[Magdalen] Septic Tanks

[Sibyl Smirl]

Third thoughts:  I don't have a basement, and wouldn't want one, the 
ground water is so high where I am.  My septic tank works fine: a 
basement would _not_ work.


On 2/3/16 11:21 PM, Sibyl Smirl wrote:
> I guess I should have said you need to know how to live with one.  I
> have lived with one ever since I was born (except for a few years when I
> was in college, married, and moving around), and learned how early. I've
> always known what not to flush, which includes anything plastic as well
> as synthetic fibers: some plastics are biodegradable, most are not.  And
> you've got to think of those critters down there as your _friends_ (with
> somewhat different tastes than you have), and be careful not to poison
> them.  They aren't the disease bacteria that you buy the cleansing
> products to kill.  And know where your leach lines are, and keep woody
> plants away from them.  All that said, there _are_ some soil types and
> drainage patterns, the "lay of the land", that are just not suitable for
> septic tanks.
>
> On 2/3/16 11:06 PM, Sibyl Smirl wrote:
>> On 2/3/16 3:09 PM, Susan Hagen wrote:
>>> Oh God Jay, enough already.  Septic problems are beyond nasty.  I had
>>> the system in our NH house back up into the basement TWICE!  It was
>>> undersized and no one had ever told this city dweller the damn things
>>> have to be pumped out periodically.
>>
>> They mostly don't need pumping, if they're working properly.
>> Micro-organisms that are doing their job liquefy everything, and it all
>> goes into the soil out of the leach lines.  Sometimes too much
>> inappropriate stuff (like synthetic fibers that don't biodegrade) gets
>> flushed down and clogs things, sometimes too much stuff like chlorine
>> and other micro-organism killers massacres the proper population (you
>> can be _too_ sanitary in your bathroom: I mostly use white vinegar)(you
>> can rebuild the proper critter population with cultures that are
>> marketed for septic tanks), sometimes tree or shrub roots invade and
>> fill the leach lines (the reason for roto-rooter).
>>
>>
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