Tree options for septic field - SC
Nekoka
19 years ago
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veg garden over septic field??
Comments (22)yes i was expecting the one about the spinach and other greens leaves, we are kept abreast of the news world wide. but you are confusing the 2 surely the water that was sued to wash those greesn may have been the contamnient? and if the suers would have washed them then maybe nothing would have happened, or it could have been contaminated in the packing shed? i'm not sure if they ever realy found out any one thing to blame so just threw a blanket over it. we have the same products on our supemarket shelves come from all poins of australia, thee ash never been any health problem from people eating this product i ahve consumed my fair sahre of it, the packet does say wash before eating, but does everyone/anyone?? that is of course and etirely different scenero to someone growing as i ahve suggested i would above ground crops that we all wash in any case and most ge cooked. so best not for us to confuse the boundries let officialdom do that they do it best. yes there are and will be pathogens in septic water even into teh leach field but microbes and worms take care of them in that environment, the ae different ecoli bacteria all around the place the garden soils you work will have them not all are cause fatalities and some a stomach ache that is not debilatating. but no one is suggesting you drink the septic water or not wash hands thoroughly after all garden work, and no one is suggesting root crops which if eaten raw could very well pose a health problem, but if washed and cooked then no problem the health authorities say this. like they say if you tend to personnal hand hygene you will lessens you risk to different viruses passed on from contact of contaminated surfaces generally in public places. so again i ask you do you have hard case evidence of major group health issues and the health system being swamped maybe, i dunno a pandemic?? i see recall of meat products in the USA is this to be blamed on leach fields or bad processing practises? len...See MoreEstablished trees near 30-year-old drain field: Keep or remove?
Comments (11)The weight of the goats, regardless of hoof size, won't hurt your drain field. So over the drain field is the same as anywhere else. Septic drain fields are designed for a finite life, then a replacement field is built (the area for the replacement is included in the plans for the original field around here--but usually just a few feet sideways from the original). Trees that close are undoubtedly drawing moisture and nutrients from your drain field and may cause failure eventually. But, consider the cost of removing the trees currently and the potential future cost of a new drain field. I'd look into using copper sulphate periodically and leave the trees knowing that eventually I would probably have to drop $3-4K into a new field. At that time I'd try to lay the new one out where it won't be too near any trees--replacing the next one will probably be somebody else's problem anyway (who knows, it could be public septic by then anyway)....See MoreEasement for septic field - ok or avoid?
Comments (17)LOL! After reading how you spent your 25th anniversary, I have to share... After we bought our first house (a bit of a fixer upper) thirty years ago, DH and I began to call our weekly trips to hardware stores our "dates." Sometime, even when we didn't need anything right then, or couldn't afford to buy what we wanted for the next project, we'd go just to wander the aisles and dream about what we would buy - when we could afford it - to further fix up the house. After 15 years or so, we finally got that house as close to our liking as we could get it so our "dates" to the hardware stores dwindled and, to be quite honest, I missed them. Somehow dinner and a movie just wasn't the same! Then we bought property out in the country to build our dream home and started having "dates" at the hardware stores again! And we also started doing things like spending entire weekends out on the land clearing brush by hand and sometimes just walking around getting to know the land. We had nearly five years of those kinds of dates before we got the land paid off and were ready to start building. And, one of my very favorite Christmas memories is from 8 months after we finally broke ground. Our builder had promised us that we'd be in our new home by Christmas but at that point, all we had a dried-in shell with bare stud walls inside. And, we'd been having so many issues with our builder that we knew we were going to have to fire him and were so scared of the financial ramifications of doing so that we didn't want to spend ANY money on travel or fancy gifts. Needless to say, it was NOT exactly shaping up to be a very happy Christmas because it seemed like everything we had dreamed about was going totally sour. But then, on the spur of the moment, Christmas afternoon, we decided to pack up our Christmas dinner, along with a camp stove to reheat things, a bunch of candles, a card table and a couple of folding chairs, and drive out to the new house. We wound up having a lovely Christmas dinner by candlelight in the middle of the stud walls in our future dining room and then sitting out on the porch gazing at the stars and talking. It restored my faith that somehow everything would all come out all right as long as the two of us stuck together. Romance is all in how you look at things!...See MoreSeptic system saveable or destined for city sewer?
Comments (8)Generally when a city extends their municipal sewer lines into an area that is currently served by septic tanks they DO NOT force anyone to connect to the sewer at that time. If your septic system is functioning correctly you may continue to use it, but you may not make any repairs to a septic system once the municipal sewer becomes available. If you were building a new house where they have a municipal sewer you have to pay upwards of $2k for the final connection from your house sewer line to the municipal line however, here is a part that most homeowners are not aware of. Generally when they install a municipal sewer system each homeowner is levied a tax for the municipal sewer. In most areas that tax assessment also includes the "hookup fee" so when it becomes necessary to make the connection to the municipal sewer the final connection fee is already paid. You only have the expense of installing the "house sewer line" from the structure to the point of final connection on the municipal sewer and the cost of properly abandoning the existing septic tank. In most jurisdictions to properly abandone an existing septic tank you have to have the tank pumped, and in some jurisdictions it must be pressure washed, rinsed and pumped again. Then you have to punch a large hole (generally 1ft in dia.) through the bottom of the septic tank and fill the tank with sand, then backfill over the tank. Changing from a septic tank to a municipal sewer may also require changing the "Main drain" in your house because septic tanks are generally installed behind the house and the main drain is pitched toward the rear of the structure, but generally the municipal sewer is in front of the house and they have to reverse the pitch of the main drain....See Moregcmastiffs
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