Keep our environment safe and clean. By maintaining a healthy septic system you protect your property value, avoid costly repairs, extend the life of the system, and help maintain environmental safety. According to the EPA, household wastewater contains disease causing bacteria, viruses, and high levels of nitrogen and phosphorus. Well maintained septic systems, working properly, will remove most of these pollutants. Untreated, or insufficiently treated sewage from septic systems can cause groundwater contamination resulting in the spread of disease in humans, animals, and eco systems.
Be careful using anti-bacterial soaps and detergents in your daily routines. Their chemical makeup destroys the bacteria in your septic system that helps to breakdown waste materials. Using regular soap and rubbing thoroughly will do the trick and not inhibit the septic system.
Drain lines from the home to the septic tank can become clogged by waste material, roots, or from partial or complete collapse. Having a trained septic technician run a snake through the line is the most effective method of identifying the problem.
In a properly working septic tank, there are three levels; on top is the scum – grease, oils, other materials lighter than water; a clear effluent in the middle; and solid waste on the bottom. Only the effluent should be exiting the tank.
Ever wonder what happens to the stuff from the septic tank? After we pump it out, we take the waste to a proper treatment facility where it is safely processed according to local and EPA guidelines.
Before hosting a large party, have the septic tank pumped out, especially if it has been a while since it has been done. This will help prevent an accident as well as avoiding inadvertently overloading the system.