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Posted by Unrevealed Source on November 17, 2005, 6:56 am
Install a dry well. Don't drain into the septic tank.
> Hi,
>
> I have a septic tank. I also have 3 water softener units (one is a
> softner, one is for iron removal and one is for tannin removal). Each
> runs on a 3 day cycle so one regenerates each night and flushes all the
> water into the drain. I just discoverd that these don't drain into the
> septic tank but just into a space in my back yard. I now know the answer
> to why that area is always soggy. Unfortunately the area has become a
> mosquito breeding ground and we have a 20 x 20 area of the back yard we
> really can't use.
>
> I am doing renovations now and have the opportunity to re-route these to
> feed into my septic tank. My question is whether or not this is a bad
> thing for the septic tank? It is all water and no solid, but don't know
> enough about the details of septic to know for sure.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Alan
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