Septic tank woes...

Adrian · 2014-07-30T14:39:57+00:00

I think we've got an issue. We moved in last May, after the house had been very lightly used for about five years - the owners died, and their son used it as a weekend place occasionally. He assured us that the septic tank had been recently emptied, but we noticed it overflowing and generally being a bit whiffy - so we assumed he was mistaken, and had it emptied. Now, barely six months later, it's overflowing and being a bit whiffy again. So the obvious conclusion is that the drainage field is blocked up, right? There's damp bits of garden below the lid, and nowhere else that we've found. It's an old-school square two-chamber concrete pit, right on the boundary with next door - so the drainage field is either going to go under their garden or be inevitably compromised in design. Short of getting a JCB in, is there any realistic hope for any of the "healthy tank" products? The postie brought a shiny leaflet for "BioGard Muck Munchers" this am - - with various "emergency treatment" and "deep clean" options. What reckon you lot? Waste of money, or flushing good money down the bog?

Septic tank woes...

Jul 30, 2014 45 Replies

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Richard 11 years ago

:-)

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Martin Bonner 11 years ago

Things may not be that bad. Our Klargester discharged into a ditch. The bottom of the ditch was usually damp (particularly downhill from our discharge), but it wasn't flowing water.

I suspect the EA would actually welcome additional water flowing into the stream.

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Dave Liquorice 11 years ago

Interesting, thanks for that.

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Vir Campestris 11 years ago

Water, yes. But this outflow will be high in nutrients which will do nasty things unless well diluted.

Andy

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Tim 8 years ago

replying to Adrian, Tim wrote: Muck Munchers are very good, but you have to stop putting bleach down the loo and go over to using low impact detergents etc. Obviously only works with a septic tank, not a cesspit. Age is no problem as long as the structure of the system is OK.

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Broadback 8 years ago

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