8 WAYS TO AVOID EARLY SEPTIC SYSTEM FAILURE IN SPRING
1. The most important thing you can do is avoid the excessive use of water, this will include taking quicker showers and avoiding baths. Limiting your laundry to fuller loads and more spread out during the week. Do not run consecutively with dishwashing or other high water consumption fixtures.
2. Replace leaky fixtures, toilets, dripping faucets etc.
3. If the water softener goes through your septic system, it's adding hundreds of gallons of water to your already saturated field. Have the line diverted from your septic system to a different location. The salt in the softener will also kill off the much needed bacterial culture in your septic tank.
4. Keeping the water runoff from the roof, driveways, drains, or patios away from the septic system, this will include sump pumping water towards the septic system area.
5. Keep vehicles, trailers, heavy equipment or livestock off the septic system components and dispersal field area. The compaction will certainly negatively affect the system.
6. Do not pour oils, grease, chemicals or drain cleaners down the drain, this will have adverse effects on the bacteria inside the septic tank. This will include antibacterial soaps and disinfectants.
7. Do not use your garbage disposal unit
(garburator) as this will add a lot of suspended solids to the field area and it will add to the solid matter that does not break down efficiently in your septic tank.
8. Pump Tank
