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wrote:
Robert Gammon wrote:

... We sometimes, not often, but sometimes pour boiling water (200F+) down
the drain (i.e. pasta, boiled corn....) That is verboten for a septic tank.

Wrong again.

Nick

Nick,

Ok, I stand corrected.

Some long term users of septic tanks were told LONG ago NOT to pour
boiling water down the drain, it hurts the bacteria in the tank.

While this is true, it is unlikely in the extreme that you could put
enough boiling water down the drain to raise 1000 gallons of waste in
the septic tank by more than a degree or two.