2600 wrote in message
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I'm having problems with my drains (I have a private septic tank) and
to my untrained eye it looks like the problem is in the part of the
drainage channel a foot or two before it enters the septic tank.

Why do you think this?
FWIW we have had so much rain recently that the ground were mine empties is
waterlogged, so not draining away as fast as it normally does.



Additionally I've been told in the past that the U-shaped loop of
plastic inside the solids tank (where the pipe enters the solids tank)
is too close to the inlet pipe which can additionally cause solids to
build up within that U-shaped gap.

It should not be a U but inverted L shape, which should extend about 1m
below the surface crust.


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