On 01/02/17 02:29, Colonel Edmund J. Burke wrote:
On 1/29/2017 8:17 PM, Martim Ribeiro wrote:
I've had a septic system for 15 years and never had it pumped out.
Yet I see neighbors pumping theirs every 3 years.

All I put down mine is crap and TP and pee (sorry for being blunt).

1. Pee just drains away.
2. Crap (I assume) dissolves itself (bacteria) over time.
3. But what about the TP?

Does the TP dissolve like the crap dissolves?
Or does the TP eventually fill the tank up?

(Why doesn't mine fill up then?)


Anybuddy know the answer to this?
He don't pump his ****ter an' the **** down there must be goin'
somewheres...


Read the label. My current toilet paper says "Disperses easily in
water." The bacteria can dissolve anything organic. Any cellulose from
plants isn't dissolved in the body but may be broken down in the septic.
Most of the roughage in your diet comes from that. But a book on
making one's own rayon used tissues etc as a source of cellulose. That
suggests that the paper is broken down, but is still there.

The Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septic_tank) says
that crap is not dissolved completely. Accumulation of sludge is
inevitable, and it must be removed periodically.

I would suggest that he ask a licensed contractor. If he is the sole
occupant, sludge won't accumulate as fast as for a family of five (say.)
The capacity of the tank will be important as well.

Doug.