Mikey
Well-Known Member
A friend has had his OSS back up into the house 2 times in the last two years. The first of these was blamed on a missing baffle, and a T was installed somewhere to substitute. The most recent was caused by a huge wad of toilet paper that clogged the new T. But that may be irrelevant -- I asked them when the tank was last pumped, and they said it never needed pumping. It's been in service 18 years now, and I'm guessing that's just about how long it takes scum & sludge to meet.
Has anyone ever heard of a never-pump system? It seems to me to fly in the face of everything I've learned about septic systems -- anaerobic or aerobic. Overall, it looks like a conventional pump-to-gravity system, except it pumps up to a sand filter, which then drains by gravity back down to the leach field, which is next to the septic and pump tanks. Bottom line, is it all starts at what looks like a conventional septic tank, which their builder claimed never needed pumping, and they believed him. Am I missing something?
Has anyone ever heard of a never-pump system? It seems to me to fly in the face of everything I've learned about septic systems -- anaerobic or aerobic. Overall, it looks like a conventional pump-to-gravity system, except it pumps up to a sand filter, which then drains by gravity back down to the leach field, which is next to the septic and pump tanks. Bottom line, is it all starts at what looks like a conventional septic tank, which their builder claimed never needed pumping, and they believed him. Am I missing something?