Posted on 08/04/2015 1:26:09 PM PDT by dware
You want the good bugs to eat the bad bugs.
Well, I guess that means that the question that REALLY needs to be answered is: Does the bear (and the raccoon, squirrel, opossum, and every other wild creature) sh*t in the woods?
Tried it in Florida a couple years ago.
The rules here in Washington are if you are with 300 feet of a public system you must connect if your septic system fails. You have to have a pretty good reason, cost not being one of them, for them to waive that and the local jurisdiction has to write a letter to the Health District to support that reason as well
My ex-wife bought a place like that. She called me one day to find out why her septic had failed and I told her to call a pumping service. It turns out the “septic tank” was a 55 gallon drum and a pipe that went right to the Yakima River.
Being a Civil Engineer I have seen these home made jobs everywhere and just shake my head. It’s like the old FRAM oil filter commercial, you can pay me now or pay me later, but you can’t use your toilet until it’s fixed!
Typically potable water wells and septic systems are required to be a certain distance away from each other so that the septic has a very low chance of impacting your well.
24/7!
They probably aren’t allowed to use chemical treatment (chlorine or fluoride)anymore and rely on UV disinfection.
So the EPA now wants to control my poop...
Not shocking at all...
No, they were skimping on the chlorination to save money.
If its in Louisiana then some one was probably skimming from the chemical budget.
Question is, will they wipe your a$$ for you while they're at it? If not, I'd tell em to eat poo and die.
LOL. Just what hubby said.
Last year (year before) there was a kid playing in a slip’n’slide in their (in town muni water using) grandma’s yard that got the amoeba and (died or got experimental treatment, I ferget), but turns out the whole muni system was infected with that critter. augh.
Farmers out here are not permitted access to creeks and streams.
Yep, and we wouldn’t have gas or ulcers either.
Look for epa to force people to make costly changes.
I hope she answered only the questions about how many people loved there.
So? Who drinks untreated river water?
You summed it up well. It is not the septic tank but the drainage area and there has been a long battle with those who buy poorly drained, saturated and sometimes even excessively drained property and install systems. Also those near running water who conveniently run straight pipes (with or without a septic tank) directly into the water. They only become concerned when somebody does the same upstream.
Then you add aquatic, waterfowl and animal runoff poo.
You’re in ME right? That’s surprising.
Farmer here can’t divert water, but allowing cattle to use for water source in the summer has always been legal.
They can’t usually use it in the winter for obvious reasons.
Even if cattle can’t access, there is still going to be runoff of pee, and poop into the water.
The reason they can’t keep human poop out of these water sources is because they made people put gray water in or buy 2nd septic system. The soap in the gray water prevents the bacteria that eats the poop.
The wife’s parents used to run their gray water to the garden. Said it helped control insects.
Before the gray water rule they say they had never heard of having a septic tank pumped.
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