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- From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
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- Subject: Re: Septic systems and toilet paper
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- Date: 1 Jan 93 04:37:34 GMT
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- In article <HALLINAN.92Dec30132803@zeus.harvard.edu> hallinan@zeus.harvard.edu (Peter W. Hallinan) writes:
- >All the posts on septic systems have me wondering...
- >Does toilet paper actually degrade in the septic tank, or
- >is it really the main ingredient of the solids that have to be
- >periodically pumped out?
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- TP really does degrade. Not perfectly. Neither does the other effluent.
- The sludge is mostly just one of the byproducts of the anerobic bacteria
- process.
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