A . With four people in the house, and with the leaching field in good order, I think every two to five years is adequate.
12.
Sometimes the leaching field can be relocated to an area where the soil is permeable, where water and other liquids will percolate into the ground properly.
13.
A . Some detergents can be harmful to septic tanks by creating more suds than the tank can take, and a buildup of foam could interfere with the leaching field.
14.
If the second tank is filling up, it may mean that the liquid has no way to get out into the leaching field, and that tank should be investigated and cleared as well.
15.
When household waste enters the tank, the solids settle to the bottom as sludge and the liquid _ called " effluent " _ drains out of the outlet pipe and into the leaching field.
16.
It would take longer than two to five years for solids to build up in the tank to block either the line from the house or the line from the tank into the leaching field.
17.
On the opposite end of the tank _ and at a point slightly lower than the inlet pipe _ is a discharge pipe that branches off into several other pipes in an underground leaching field.
18.
So another alternative ( probably the only option ) is to raise the leaching field high enough so there will be plenty of permeable earth for the liquids to percolate into safely, without damaging the environment.
19.
The house abutting wetlands is a clue as to why the leaching field becomes saturated; there is no place for the effluence to drain to because the water is already there, very close to the surface.
20.
One of the fears about a disposal on a septic system is that too much water would be used, but if the system is new, and in code, and the leaching field is good, then OK.
