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Day to Day Facts
(The following is a generally excepted set of standards for septic use.)
Laundry loads should be spread out over the week.
Excessive water discharged into the septic system is known as "Hydraulic Overload", too much water discharged into the septic system is the number one killer of drainfields.
Bleach loads - one day a week.
One cup of bleach to a 1000 gal tank kills 80% of the beneficial bacteria for up to 72 hours, so doing all the bleaching at once gives the tank its needed recovery time.
DO NOT USE or dispose of the following using the system:
Grease, fats, and oils, or pesticides, herbicides or any other toxins such as paints, household chemicals or automobile fluids. Excessive citrus products (oranges, lemons, grapefruits, etc.) Non-biodegradable items such as: cigarette butts, disposable diapers, baby wipes, the new toilet cleaning wipes, feminine hygiene products, condoms, hair, coffee grounds, rags, paper towels, bandages, etc. Additives sold in advertising for septic systems do more harm to the drainfield than good for the tank. PLEASE DO NOT USE!
Home brewery waste, antibacterial soaps and wipes should be used sparingly and whenever possible disposed of outside of the system. Strong medicines (especially antibiotics) in human waste or dumped directly into the system.
Strong disinfectants or bleaches. Cleaning products such as : Lysol, Pine Sol, Tidy Bowl, Drano and Murphy's Oil. Downy and Snuggle water softeners, "point of delivery" water softeners (saline added) clog drain lines and baffles inhibiting the effluent flow: USE FABRIC SOFTENER DRYER SHEETS INSTEAD OF LIQUIDS IN THE WASHER.
If you have a garbage disposal, use it sparingly. Put food waste, grease, etc. into the solid waste bin or compost. Food waste creates additional loading of the tank which it would have to digest, increasing required pumping frequencies. The blades in a garbage disposal also chop particles so fine they neither sink nor float above grey water and then log filters and drain lines.
Recommendations
Detergents: liquid, low sudsing, low phosphate and biodegradable baking soda ingredients like Gain, Dash, Arm & Hammer, Fresh Start, and Bright.
Cleaning products: Liquid, non chlorine, bio-degradable and non toxic such as ivory and sunlight, powder cleansers such as Biz. Comet, and baking soda.
For More information visit
The Pierce County Health Department at tpchd.org.
The Facts
Two Compartment Standard Septic Tank
A septic tank is simply a big concrete or steel tank that is buried in the yard. The tank might hold 500-1200 gallons of water. Wastewater flows into the tank at one end and leaves the tank at the other. The tank looks something like this in cross-section. In this picture, you can see three layers. Anything that floats rises to the top and forms a layer known as the scum layer. Anything heavier than water sinks to form the sludge layer. In the middle is a fairly clear water layer. This body of water contains bacteria and chemicals like nitrogen and phosphorous that act as fertilizers, but it is largely free of solids. The second chamber pictured here is standard to most 1150-1200 gallon tanks installed after 1975. It is important to maintain your system regularly to keep the second chamber and drainfield free of solids.
A septic tank naturally produces gases (caused by bacteria breaking down the organic material in the wastewater), and these gases don't smell good. Sinks therefore have loops of pipe called P-traps that hold water in the lower loop and block the gases from flowing back into the house. The gases flow up a vent pipe instead -- if you look at the roof of any house, you will see one or more vent pipes poking through.
As new water enters the tank, it displaces the water that's already there. This water flows out of the septic tank and into a drain field. A drain field is made of perforated pipes buried in trenches filled with gravel.
WHEN THIS BOX SOUNDS OR LIGHTS UP...
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This is an example of a typical pump alarm. In this case the silence button can be pressed on the side of the panel. This will silence the alarm but the light should remain on.
