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From the largest and most expensive to the smallest,
Virtually every product or system in your home comes
with instructions. Every system except perhaps the most
expensive one,
YOUR SEPTIC SYSTEM
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The Septic System Owners Manual Table of Contents |
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The Septic System Owners Manual |
This manual is presented to clear up the mistruths about your septic system, expose the “Smoke and Mirror solutions”, allow you to stay clear of the “Snake Oil” Salesperson and expose a process that has been used for over 100 years to treat wastewater.
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The Septic System Owners Manual Chapter Review
(Chapter 5) Components of Your Septic System
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The Septic Tank is a large tank ranging from 500 gallons for small septic systems to thousands of gallons for large systems.
The most common home septic system has a tank size of 1,000 to 1,500 gallons. The Septic Tank can be made of concrete, steel,
fiberglass or plastic. The overwhelming majority of household
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The tank can be a single chamber or a multi-chamber design. The first or only chamber that the influent flows into is called the treatment chamber.
In the treatment chamber the waste is collected and partially treated. In the treatment chamber there are three distinct layers.
They are the sludge layer, the effluent layer and the scum layer. The sludge layer is found at the bottom of the
septic tank, which supports
anaerobic bacteria only. All the material that is heavier than water settles into this layer. |
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The anaerobic bacteria begin to breakdown and digest the biodegradable solid materials in the influent that settle to the bottom. As the anaerobic
bacteria breaks down and digest the solids, the solids become lighter and migrate to the middle layer above. The middle layer called the effluent
layer is mostly grayish/brown murky water. This layer contains mostly anaerobic bacteria with some aerobic bacteria. The semi-transparent liquid
contains mostly water with fine and microscopic biodegradable and non-biodegradable materials in suspension. The top layer is called the scum layer.
It contains greases, oil and soap film and any material that is lighter than water. Both aerobic and anaerobic bacteria live in the scum layer,
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As the bacteria digests the scum it becomes heavier than water and begins to settle towards the bottom of the tank where it can be further treated.
The septic tank has an outlet baffle and may have an inlet baffle. The purpose of the inlet baffle is to slow the influent flow in the tank and direct
it away from the outlet baffle. The diversion and slowing of the influent allows the influent to be processes as described above. The outlet baffle is
in place to contain the solid matter in the tank by creating a dam at the liquid surface of the tank. For the effluent to escape the tank it must move
through the effluent layer as described above. The preferred apparatus at the outlet of the tank is an effluent filter. This is a fine plastic mesh
screen with slots of 1/64" or as great as 1/8" wide. The filter prevents solids larger than the opening from leaving the tank. Bacteria may grow on
the filter surface. As the effluent flows through the filter, the bacteria digest some of the solids allowing cleaner effluent out of the tank.
Another advantage of some of the filter designs is that in the event of high liquid depth in the tank, solids are contained in the tank because
all of the effluent must flow through the filter. In a high liquid level condition with a simple baffle, the effluent and solids overflow the baffle
dam and can allow a significant amount of solids out of the tank into the absorption component. The partially treated effluent flows from the septic
tank through a pipe to a settling chamber or a pumping chamber or to the
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