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- From: Charles.K.Scott@dartmouth.edu (Charles K. Scott)
- Newsgroups: misc.rural
- Subject: Re: concerns with well water and a septic tank
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.152516.5069@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 15:25:16 GMT
- References: <1992Dec27.212129.27007@siemens.com>
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- In article <1992Dec29.185522.17568@siemens.com>
- aad@siemens.com (Anthony Datri) writes:
-
- > No, I'm worried about polluting the environment. I don't know enough about
- > septic tanks to worry about it specifically.
- >
- > > If there was anything you could do
- > >that would wreck it, the landlord would have told you not to do it.
- >
- > Well, the landlord let me believe that the gas stove was reasonable, but I
- > see now that it has a pair of pilots burning. I don't truse landlords.
- >
- > >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 :-).
- >
- > I find it out when the pump drops the voltage throughout the electrical web.
-
- Antony, I've been living in Vermont for 17 years, we have a septic
- tank/leech field and gas stove. I don't understand what your concern
- is. The Septic Tank system works fine as long as you pump the tank out
- every three years or so. This may be overkill but the consequences of
- not pumping it out are that the solids build up and prevent normal flow
- to occur. As to the gas stove, you imply that having gas pilots is
- somehow improper. It's worked for us for 17 years. I'd rather have a
- pilotless gas stove but I don't and the one we have works fine (use it
- up, wear it out, make it do or do without). As to the voltage drop,
- again I don't understand. Isn't that what happens when the pump turns
- on and creates a momentary draw? What's the problem with that? It
- isn't blowing fuses is it?
-
- Corky Scott
-