After looking at the plans again I realize I have 5 lines instead of 3. Oops. I've snaked the bottom 3, and clog-hogged, then hydrogen peroxided 2 of them. They weren't too bad and the clog-hog doesn't use much water. I've dug below the lines on the ends(with a little rock in the bottom for now) so I can add a clean-out with a downward extension. While jetting the lines I pumped the fluid into a water trough and then pumped it back into the first chamber of the septic tank. Luckily not much came out, mostly sludge from the bottom of the pipe. I'm going to get the tank pumped when I'm finished. When I added the hydrogen peroxide, I used the pump to circulate it. Since I've got a 2 chamber tank I'm going to give aeration a try. I bought an aeration pump and and have been running it in the small pits at the end of the lines. I also have a little fountain pump to circulate the line being aerated. My bubbler, for this purpose, is just a garden hose with a bunch of holes drilled into it, and the end plugged and buried under the rock. Aeration really works. I'm planning on adding a second air pump to bubble the clean-outs on one side and a small pump ( maybe the one I have if it's powerful enough) that will circulate fluid from the bottom line up to the top line. That's a picture of the clean-out I'm going to put at the ends of the leach lines. You can view it with a description in the image folders. I had to put it there first and then move it here.
These solids are like smoke in the wind. No matter what kind of filter you have, TSS will slip right through.
Maybe since the first sample was only a few months after the tank had been pumped explains the clean sample. Even though the tank was murky with visible solids the sample was clear and remained so for weeks. If I add a 300 gal. tank for aeration only I was thinking of a light weight single chamber tank that I could install myself. http://www.plastic-mart.com/product/1032/300-gallon-plastic-septic-pump-tank-41319 A bigger dual chamber tank would be better, but I've got limited room and at 125 lbs. I can handle this one myself, with a small excavator. After the tank settles down I'll see if the effluent clears back up. The aeration I'm already doing in the cleanouts (http://curezone.com/upload/_S_Forums/Septic/clean_out.jpg) may be adequate to keep the leach field happy. In the summer three of the five lines were completely dry. Even before I added air to the tank, odor was only a problem where air was first being introduced. The cleanout at the other end of the first line was anaerobic odor free as were all subsequent cleanouts. I am disappointed the aeration in the tank did not work because having the air introduced as early as possible was helpful at speeding up the breakdown of the waste, and reducing odors. Before I aerated the tank, air was first introduced at a turning structure (http://curezone.org/ig/i.asp?i=71768) just before the first leach line. If that lid and the tank lids were not secured tight there were odors. Soon after I added air to the tank odor was not an issue. It would be nice if someone could figure out a way to do it.