To clean the water, consider using a carbon filter, carbon pad, or Seachem Purigen. The activated carbon will soon get clogged with all the tannins, which you must dispose of. However, if you use Purigen, you can clean it with bleach and reuse it. ...
Pumping the septic tank with the fantasy that doing so will "fix" a clogged or failed drainfield. All you really gain is a few days of toilet flushing before the tank has re-filled. See this complete list SEPTIC TANK PUMPING MISTAKESand fantasies about how septic tanks work and how they ...
More septic or sewer gases may escape and make their way through the tank's outlet tee top into the soil absorption system where the gases are distributed over a larger (leachfield) area and further filtered and deodorized by the soil. Where a building is connected to a municipal sewer, ...
It's clogged by 6" to 24" (typically) of sewage, grease, solids, as well as by the biomass formed by bacteria. That thickness is not going to be easily removed by soil bacteria for two reasons: 1. It's enormous in thickness compared to a leachfield biomass and 2. it most of the...