Dan Warren wrote:
Stan Brown wrote in
t:

28 Oct 2007 20:23:06 GMT from Dan Warren
:
The previous owner lived here seven years, and in an email he said he
never pumped it until right before settlement.


Generally pumping out is required at the sale of a house. A big question
is do you have a garbage disposal? If so, more pumping, if not, you most
probably can go longer.

As an aside. Never flush antibiotics down the toliet if you have a septic
system. They can kill the bacteria in the tank.

So what do you do when you get prescribed antibiotics to take? Crap in
the yard? They do go right through you, you know. That is why you have
to take them for a week or ten days. Also keep in mind the relative
volumes- the tank is an order of magnitude or three bigger than your gut.

It is real hard to kill septic tank flora. Even if you do, a few days of
normal use will restart it, short of some sort of antiseptic chemical
load in the tank.

aem sends...