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- From: csb@jax.org (Carolyn Blake)
- Newsgroups: misc.rural
- Subject: Re: Raised Beds on leach lines.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.180328.1119@jax.org>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 18:03:28 GMT
- References: <C1F5nH.Mq3@srgenprp.sr.hp.com> <1993Jan26.152520.17699@news.mentorg.com> <1k64tjINN3c6@seven-up.East.Sun.COM>
- Organization: The Jackson Laboratory
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- In article <1k64tjINN3c6@seven-up.East.Sun.COM> you write:
- >/tmp/rrn5482.5168
- >>In article <C1F5nH.Mq3@srgenprp.sr.hp.com>, jefftb@sr.hp.com (Jeff Brown) writes:
- >>|>
- >>|> Does anyone out there see problem with putting raise beds for gardening
- >>|> on the septic sysem leach lines? I'm not covering the tank or any dist-
- >>|> ribution boxes. The lines are fairly deep.
- >>|>
- >>|> Thanks
- >>|> Jeff Brown
- >>
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- [perc stuff deleted]
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- I thought I'd read somewhere that gardening on top of your septic system
- was a bad idea 'cause the septic leaves concentrated amounts of trace
- elements/minerals that, in large doses, are not good for human consumption -
- and that's what your garden will 'suck up'.
- I have no actual reference, so if I'm wrong please say so - my leach
- field would be the best gardenable spot on my lot...
-
- cb
-