[geeks] Why?

[Steven Hill]

> City boy!
>
> Domestic Onsite Sewage Treatment.
>
> You poop.
> You flush.
> It goes into a baffled tank.
> poop settles to bottom of tank (hopefully).
> Water/liquid flows under baffle and out exit pipe.
> Exit pipe joins a network of perforated plastic pipes burried in loose
> gravel and sand (the leach field).
>
> If you crush the sand/gravel the water won't settle into the earth and you
> have a problem. You also have a problem if you don't pump the tank
> occationally and let solids (poop) flow into the field. That is also why
> garbage disposals are a bad idea for a septic-equiped house.

I am familiar with slurry tanks, but have only ever seen them on
farms. And they get emptied by tanker and spread on fields...

I was covered in slurry one day by a dead hydraulic valve.

Poo.

S.

-- 
Steven Hill
Systems Administrator

www.matrixnetsystems.com