Re: OT: leach bed vs. mound system

Posted by Hal/WA on August 03, 2006 at 19:09:48 from (66.45.175.118):

In Reply to: OT: leach bed vs. mound system posted by Farmer boyy on August 02, 2006 at 18:35:00:

I sure don't know what in the world the government is thinking about! Most of the systems in my area that have been approved in the last 20 years have been mound systems that required an electric pump to work and cost from $5000 to $20000 to engineer and build. And most of those early systems built in the 80's have failed and pour effluent out on top of the ground. Most have also gone through at least one effluent pump.

On the other hand, my gravity flow leach field works just as well now as when I put it in in 1976. Zero problems. I have had to pump the tank a few times, but you also have to do that with a mound system. And my system works when the power is out--it won't back up into the basement like my neighbor's has, twice. Ick!

I think the government agency that controls this got sold a bill of goods by the contractor industry that wants to keep having to repair the made-to-fail above ground systems.

How can it be better for raw effluent to be pouring out on top of the ground and stinking than it is to have the same effluent being properly processed underground by soil bacteria? My old style system sure smells better, and it sure hasn't cost me much money since I put it in for less than $1000.

What a bunch of bureaucratic garbage! I would put in a conventional system before the new rule goes into effect. But only if they will agree in writing that the system would be "grandfathered" in as an existing system for new construction. Good luck!

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