Re: OT,Leech Beds???????

Posted by 720Deere on July 04, 2005 at 09:49:51 from (70.17.240.180):

In Reply to: OT,Leech Beds??????? posted by SJ on July 04, 2005 at 06:30:29:

I know I will catch some flack for this, but here's my advice. Conventional septic systems are designed to systematically fail. What happens is the perferations or holes in the pipe begin to grow shut and clog with time. This starts up close to the distribution box and carries on until the entire pipe is clogged. That is usually what has happened when you get the wet spot at the end of the field.

If your drain field doesn't have much cover over the top of the stone, I would try to dig it up in a few places to see if the pipe is plugged. Many times, you can just replace the pipe and the top 8" to 10" of stone and you will be good as new.

The infiltrator systems work pretty well in the right soil conditions. I am skeptical about them vs. stone & pipe because they are more designed for storage than seepage and they don't give you near as much ground contact as the stone pit does. With the stone design, you have ground contact with the sides and the bottom. The infiltrator will give you good bottom contact and about 3' height of side contact, but the stone pit is usually much deeper giving more ground for the liquid to seep into.

If you end up putting in a new drain field, make provisions to tie the old one in to the distribution box. After a year or so, that old field will be ready for another go and will make a good backup. A friend of mine has a house on 1/2 acre and the drain fields are too small. His distribution box favors the shorter of the two fields so it started to fail. We opened the D-box and created a brick weir to limit flow to the short field and everthing works fine now.

The health department doesn't like it, but that old field would make a nice drain field for the washing machine. Most times drain field pipe failures can be attributed to lint from the washing machine so it's nice to keep that seperate if you can.

Follow Ups:

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