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Posted by Goedjn on April 18, 2007, 1:02 pm
wrote:
>>I had a water softener at my previous house, where we had sewer service. It
>>was great.
>>
>> We moved to a house with a septic tank not long ago, and I've been
>> wondering what the implications are of having the water softener discharge
>> the rinse water into the septic tank.
>>
>> Good, bad, indifferent?
>>
>> In case it matters, we're a family of two adults, two kids, and the septic
>> tank holds 1500 gallons. The leach field seems to be in good shape, it was
>> installed in 2002. The tank was pumped in late 2005, when we bought the
>> house.
>>
>> Thanks
>
>I don't believe that the .salts washed from the resin bed would be good for
>the leach field - they would build up. I can't speak for your situation but
>our softener had it's own drain line to a dry well where the water leached
>into the subsoil (I was told by the previous owner). I verified this while
>the septic tank was being pumped by manually cycling the softener. Nothing
>went into the tank. You that might try the same to verify.
>
Salt build-up won't hurt the leachfield any, but it might affect the
aquifer under it (if any) and/or anything growing over it.
On the oder hand, if you have anything with significant roots
growing into your leachfield, you probably WANT to kill it.
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