[Septic system] Sand mound question

[MadInNc]

Originally Posted by Yadkin

Don't.

[GTOGAY] Listen to Yaddy, he knows shit[GTOGAY]

[Bruze]

Originally Posted by Red Baron

I'll see your Vlasic, and raise you one...

I don't like dill rickles, especially if they've been blessed by a circumcising rabbi. I've read reports of people finding little foreskins in their kosher rickles.

Bread and butter rickles, I love.

I also like rickled perring, I have some in my fridge right now.

[Bruze]

Originally Posted by Don Rickles

OK I made the call to the guy that I’ve been doing business with for over 30 years. His son actually is now running the company. They both have memories like an elephant. When my system was installed in the early 90s they never installed cleanout. So my local guy is going to come out he’s going to install Shut offs and clean outs. Then using high pressure, water and air. He will blow out all the piping. The estimated quote is 875. But I’m thinking maybe I should wait until things dry out a little bit more to reduce the damage to my yard?

One more thing, I forgot to add, is the insert a large pipe cleaner for lack of a better word, and scrub all the pipes out to ensure that all the holes are cleared

Are you talking about the leech field?

[KenHorse]

Originally Posted by Bruze

Are you talking about the leech field?

That's my takeaway

[Red Baron]

Originally Posted by Bruze

I don't like dill rickles, especially if they've been blessed by a circumcising rabbi. I've read reports of people finding little foreskins in their kosher rickles.

Bread and butter rickles, I love.

I also like rickled perring, I have some in my fridge right now.

Ha!
Did ya ever make pickled cabbage and/or pickled onions? Now that's some good eatin'.

[Red Baron]

Fist Packed For Freshness

[Don Rickles]

Originally Posted by Bruze

Are you talking about the leech field?

Sand mound = leech mound.

It has 1 1/2” PVC piping horizontally with 1/4” holes every 6’, coming from the second storage tank. Now some 30+ years later these drain holes have clogged but can be cleaned and opened. They locate each lateral cut off the end caps and replace them with clean outs, then cut them off 2” below ground and surround them with a larger 4” cap that is set just under the grass.

He said I really should have had them installed after 7 years… Any future cleanings will only cost 300.00

[Don Rickles]

Originally Posted by Red Baron

Fist Packed For Freshness

So what kept you occupied while you were away from here for so long? Did you stumble across a cool site to hang out?

GTO needs you terribly! Yaddy like me splits occasionally…

[DJ_Critterus]

Originally Posted by Red Baron

Ha!
Did ya ever make pickled cabbage and/or pickled onions? Now that's some good eatin'.

Pickled cabbage.... Otherwise known as Kimchi. Taht stuff will cause you to burn a hole in your skivvies

[Red Baron]

Originally Posted by Don Rickles

So what kept you occupied while you were away from here for so long? Did you stumble across a cool site to hang out?

GTO needs you terribly! Yaddy like me splits occasionally…

I'm a busy man. I got tings ta do, ovah heah. Ya heah?

[Don Rickles]

Originally Posted by DJ_Critterus

Pickled cabbage.... Otherwise known as Kimchi. Taht stuff will cause you to burn a hole in your skivvies

Can you imagine that it’s actually very good for you!

Man it’s tough!

[DJ_Critterus]

Originally Posted by Don Rickles

Can you imagine that it’s actually very good for you!

Man it’s tough!

Cabbage is a filler and really doesn't have any nutritional value beyond taking up space and making you feel full.

It's only other value is to guarantee a win in the office farting contest or cashing in your courtesy smell in the car

[Red Baron]

Originally Posted by DJ_Critterus

Pickled cabbage.... Otherwise known as Kimchi. Taht stuff will cause you to burn a hole in your skivvies

Dude Wipes

[Bill]

I was going to suggest simply applying some herbicide to the areas where the grass is growing higher than the rest. If you do it right, a little bermuda release treatment with Oust, or maybe us a growth regulating herbicide to keep the wet areas from growing up.

But there have been some other really good suggestions here, too. Nice to see OT coming together for good. We should do that more often.

[JRD77VET]

Originally Posted by Don Rickles

Our house has on an onsite septic system with storage tanks and an elevated sand mound. The system was put in completely new in '92. Over the last 30+ years we have had the tanks emptied regularly, the company actually asked us to wait longer between cleanings.

Starting last season I noticed a few spot that were wet with the grass 10x taller in these areas. The horizontal piping must have clogged holes and I'm asking if anyone has a recommendation to clean out the piping without replacing the entire top of the sand mound.....(which would likely require permits and inspections and mo money.....

We had two wet spots and our problem was the "orangeburg" pipe collapsed. ( that WAS the latest and greatest back in the day )

We had Clemens Septic Service out of Telford come out and fix it. We also had them use a power washer with a "reverse power jet" to clean out the pipes.

Great work, very good people and very affordable.

Top pic- New feed lines to the existing drainage field

middle- orangeburg coupler came apart and the fix ( this was found with the pressure washer and the "backwards" waterjet attachment)

bottom-- collapsed orangeburg pipe which "back in the day" was the good stuff

[The_Dude]

Call the guy

[JRD77VET]

Originally Posted by The_Dude

Call the guy

"My Guy" ( listed above ) is highly recommended

[Newby]

Best thing to do is to install at least 1 Effluent Filter at your tank outlet before the drain field. If were mine, I would put one at the outlet of the 1st tank as well as the 2nd tank. Several diameters and types available. Research which is best for you.

Pressure cleaner jetting should be more than adequate to clean your leech piping a lot cheaper.

Bruze is pretty much correct.
Adding too much bacteria like Ridex, yeast, milk etc can do more harm than good. It could possibly not create clean effluent and breaks the solids down small enough to leave the tanks and plug up the drain field (mounds) over time. You want the solids to make your sludge layer in the tanks to be pumped later.



https://www.zabelenvironmental.com/4...UaAsXXEALw_wcB

I'm so happy I got a house with city sewer that I bought a 1hp disposal and smile whever I use it.

[Yadkin]

Originally Posted by Don Rickles

Our house has on an onsite septic system with storage tanks and an elevated sand mound. The system was put in completely new in '92. Over the last 30+ years we have had the tanks emptied regularly, the company actually asked us to wait longer between cleanings.

Starting last season I noticed a few spot that were wet with the grass 10x taller in these areas. The horizontal piping must have clogged holes and I'm asking if anyone has a recommendation to clean out the piping without replacing the entire top of the sand mound.....(which would likely require permits and inspections and mo money.....

You system should have multiple lines to the nitrification (absorption, or leech) field. At the upstream end there should be a distribution box, and the box should have an adjustable outlet for each line. Raise the outlet for the line that is saturated, and let it "rest" for a few months while the other lines take up the water.

It's standard practice in commercial systems to divide the nitrification field in half, restrict flow to one half and dose the other. Then switch every year. Nitrification fields work best when they have an annual rest period.

[04 commemorative]

I'm glad I have city sewers here....all my crap goes under the bay to the mainland.