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- From: xtkmg@trentu.ca (Kate Gregory)
- Subject: Re: concerns with well water and a septic tank
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.155822.17569@trentu.ca>
- Organization: Trent University, Ontario
- References: <1992Dec27.212129.27007@siemens.com>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 15:58:22 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec27.212129.27007@siemens.com> aad@siemens.com (Anthony Datri) writes:
- >
- >I recently moved into a place that gets water from a well, and dumps it into
- >a septic tank. What concerns should I have about using the water from the
- >well? The landlord says that it goes through a "neutralizer", but just what
- >that means isn't clear.
-
- You can get the water tested easily enough. Here it's free. We own our
- house, got the water tested as part of the purchase, and retest it once
- a year. Since you are renting you could insist on the landlord testing
- it before you renew your lease, but testing it yourself is not hard.
-
- >What concerns should I have about detergents and
- >such that I use that end up in the septic tank?
-
- Are you worried you'll wreck it? If there was anything you could do
- that would wreck it, the landlord would have told you not to do it.
- If you're worried about the environment in general, you'd have to
- know more about your tank setup. Chances are it's to code and you
- can just live your life.
-
- I grew up with well/septic, moved to the city for ten years or so,
- and now I'm back on well/septic. I don't do anything any differently
- in terms of laundry, watering the garden, showers, or anything else.
- I just live my life as always. Some people have wells that can't support
- heavy watering or five loads of laundry in a row, but you'll find
- that out lickety-split when you run out of water :-). Don't worry,
- it will come back.
-
- Kate
-