Kris Frieswick
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first heard Mar 2024
last heard Mar 2024
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So many things can go wrong.
And that's why as much as you might want to ignore your septic tank and your septic system, you really shouldn't.
It doesn't need a lot of maintenance, but it does need some maintenance.
And it also needs some thoughtfulness.
The septic system basically starts at your toilet or your sink or your bathtub and pipes go down out of your house into a major pipe that then leads into a septic tank.
Septic tank is where all of the effluent from your home lands.
And then at that point, the bacteria that lives in that tank, which is helpfully provided by your own gut, eats what's in there and basically helps the tank to separate into solid and liquid.
The liquid then drains off via another pipe to a junction box, which then connects the
to a leach field, which is basically, it's the watery part of the effluent gets spread across a very large area of soil that then filters that effluent and helps to take anything that's toxic out of it.
The problem comes when you have a lot of
closely located leach fields all draining into a groundwater system.
So that's where you start seeing problems with tainted groundwater and stuff.
But for most communities that have healthy septic systems with enough spacing apart where they're on fairly large lots, they work great.
I mean, they've been working great for thousands and thousands of years.
That bacteria and also the bacteria that lives in the soil, that they're all working on this effluent to break it down, to attach to it and to make it so that it's not a pollutant.
So that it won't infiltrate the local groundwater, which you drink.
You don't want to drink your own, you know, stuff.
So approximately 20% of residential homes.
homes have what's called an on-site wastewater system, which most people would just call a septic system.
That means they're not in a town sewer line where the waste would be carried away to a central processor.
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