Septic tank maintenance

Leach field treatments

This article will touch basis on leach field treatments and the importance of treating a septic system. You have always been the type of homeowner that is considered hands-on. When it is about your home, you always made sure that every component is set according to what your septic expert recommended. You do this because you believe that your home is your legacy. It would be your shelter and the shelter of future generations in your family. Even if it meant having to devote an entire day for your home’s care and maintenance, you gladly did it. You would rather do the maintenance than have an extensive and expensive repair.

One aspect of your home that you always focused on was your septic system, particularly, your leach field. It was something that you thought had to be given special attention because if it failed, you knew that your home and the surrounding environment would be negatively affected. You knew that if the leach field suddenly stops functioning, it would mean that you and your household would be surrounded by septic odors and septic water. Diseases would infect everyone and everything within the area. That thought never left you that was why you did everything just to keep the leach field and the entire septic system optimal.

One way to keep the leach field unclogged and in good condition is to apply leach field treatments. In today’s day and age, there are so many developed leach field treatments that you could choose from. The treatments are categorized into inorganic, organic, and biological. Inorganic leach field treatments use harsh chemicals such as strong alkalines and acids that often kill off the resident bacteria and corrode the physical components of the system. The organic leach field treatments use baking soda or yeasts that benefit the system for a time. It is advised that the organic treatments should not be used for long because they could affect the performance of the leach field and the entire system as well. The safest, most recommended leach field treatment is the biological one. This leach field treatment is made up of non-pathogenic, cultured bacteria and enzymes that significantly improve the performance of the resident bacteria in breaking down the solid waste materials.

There are studies that show how unnecessary the use of enzymes in leach field treatments. According to these experts, the simple dumping of human wastes could already provide the enzymes that accelerate the digestion of the solid wastes in the system. But it’s still the homeowner’s prerogative whether to use the leach field treatments or not. You just have to make sure that the leach field treatments are done according to standards, with the proper procedure.

Even if you have decided to use leach field treatments, you still have to do your part in taking good care of your leach field. It all starts in the home. You should make sure that your household properly uses the entire septic system. Drains, toilets, and sinks should not be treated as waste receptacles. This means that you should not dump your food scraps, grease, disinfectants, tampons, toilet paper, and diapers into them. You should also refrain from using antibacterial household cleansers that destroy both aerobic and anaerobic bacteria in the system. If you have a rain gutter that directs the rain fall directly onto the leach field, you should redirect it at the soonest. This would only increase the water load in the system and prevent the leach field from taking in water. Any form of construction and vehicle should not be placed over the leach field. The heavy weight will cause damage to the leach field components such as the lateral lines and the d-box. Heavy footprints could also cause this same destruction. It is best to have that leach field area off limits.

Leach field treatments are just there to help you improve the leach field’s condition and performance. They are not magic potions that “cure” your leach field of any ailments. You have already done this and you don’t seem to have any plans of stopping.

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