Re: Solution for Septic Field clogging Long Term

Justaguy,

I think you have a brilliant idea! That will certainly prevent my problem of the aerator stirring up sludge all around the tank, and I love that you placed the aerator pipe inside another pipe to prevent stirring up water currents. Could you describe your 1 1/2 x 4' PVC aerator pipe?
What size holes and how many across the pipe? Spacing? And ditto for your 4 inch x 4' pipe? I assume you have both pipes capped at the ends? Do you have it laid between the input manhole & the output manhole? Suspended with wires? I think your design would be improved with a dozen fluffy paint rollers suspended in your tank to help incubate aerobic bacteria.

I wonder if the aerated water is able to spread out all over the tank, or will it all float to the top? Is there any way to measure this? Does it even matter? Probably not. Facultative Anaerobes would multiply near the surface, but would spread all around the tank:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerobic_organism


It would be great if you use Windows Paint to draw a detailed diagram, and use the FCK editor to post in a message here. I'll also post it into the Septic Solutions Doc.
http://tinyurl.com/Septic-Solutions


How does the water bubble into your Outlet "T" ? Do you have an effluent filter?

How many hours a day is your pump running?

Grizz
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