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I didn’t realize you have been living in Olde Blighty for more than 15 years…

Interesting Video.

In the states we have electric but the electricity is used to run a compressor/blower for aeration purposes. The aeration process is what breaks down the Poo. There is no mechanical item inside the tank. You can actually hear it gurgling when the aeration compressor/blower is on.

The other non-electric is just a septic system with field lines. This means the water is distributed in the field lines and you do not discharge water into a waterway.

Both of these type systems Over-time might require pumping out to remove solids that do not breakdown in the process. In some locations it is a requirement to pump out the system on a time based schedule.

There is a bacterial product you can buy at your local Ace hardware store that you dump down your toilet that turns solid organic waste into a liquid. Helps keep your sewer line flowing also.

When I first bought this residence I had the septic system pumped and had a conversation with the driver, who might have been the business owner and he confirmed the bacterial injection does work. The people at Ace Hardware knew exactly what I was talking about when I asked if they had the product. There is also an enzyme that breaks down ‘fat bergs’ if you dump fat down your kitchen drain.

BawlDawgGuy; It’s the same system, here – a compressor that blows air though what they delicately describe as ‘sludge’. We had the latest replacement compressor fitted four months ago (about $700). Today it was the electric output pump ($900).

It’s cheap living in the country. Or so they claim.

I had often wondered what business British Leyland had wandered into after they quit making cars.

Poo Water.

Isn’t that a song by Kenny Loggins?

“Help me if you can
I’ve got to get
All the poo water
Flushed out of our tank…”

Yeah, that one.

Meanwhile, Los Angeles and some other Western cities are treating sewerage and returning it to the potable water supply.
What could go wrong?

Poo water. Ugh.

We have a 4m x 4m x 4m tank under the slab of our master bedroom. Divided into two, one for the incoming slop, the other for the ‘poo water’ overflow. These tanks are only fed by our two toilets – all other drains (gray water) go directly to the rainwater drains.

The bottom of the tanks are just soil (not concrete like the top and sides), so hopefully most of the ‘poo water’ leeches into the ground and eventually the ground water *grin*

If the ‘poo water overflow’ tank fills, it empties into the rainwater drain pipes and into the neighboring empty lot – which is an abandoned rice field. It should be _years_ before the overflow tank begins to fill.

Eventually, we’ll have to call the honey truck to empty us out. Hopefully I’m dead by then. More than likely the master bedroom will collapse into the tanks, taking me with it. A fitting end.

Ugh. It takes a special person to maintain septic systems. I can’t imagine thinking “I’m going to work with other people’s poo for my career”.

Just like being a proctologist or gynecologist. Double-Ugh.