How does a septic system operate?

Answer 1

Everything from toilet or kitchen sink to laundry washing machine discharge into sewer line than exit the house , from there go into whats called the holding tank there everything rest and settle, the heavy stuff to the bottom of tank and the liquids to the top , from there ones the liquids reach a certain height in the holding tank, liquids will go out of another opening located at a lower level from the coming appeased side coming from the house and will send it by gravity through soled pipe to what is called the leaching system , witch is pipes with halls on one half side through out the length , and they are lade under ground and away from an active area and the holding tank ,with the halls facing down , where already gravel have bean lade down to allow fluids to come out of the pipe halls and be absorbed by the leach field ,

Leaching system size i depends on the size of the house and amount of bedrooms ,

Back at the holding tank ones the heavy stuff gets too high it will give a bad smell and a slow drain problem , than its time to call MR. stinky's septic service . hope i gave you some idea how it works

S. SALMUS.