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Jacuzzi Tubs Bacteria Sanitize and Septics
I have a lot of training in water treatment and water purification.
Trust me when I tell you that you cannot sterilize one thousand gallons of fulminating poop with a couple of cups of bleach.
Bleach has a half-life curve. That is why you have to keep adding it to your outdoor pools every few days. Chlorine out-gasses into the atmosphere and also gets just plain used up.
Even if you could somehow kill off your septic, think of how many pounds of new, active "biological material" you are going to add to the system in the next week.
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Jacuzzi Tubs Bacteria Sanitize and Septics
Well.... there is a BIG difference between sanitizing clear water for purposes of drinking and killing off ALL the bacteria in a solid chunk of feces.
The same dilution tables will tell you to double or triple the chlorine if the proposed drinking water is cloudy with suspended solids.
No amount of chlorine could every make a bucket of poop safe to consume.
Recently I found several mouse messes in my tool drawers in the garage. I mixed up a strong bleach/detergent solution in a 5 gallon bucket to sanitize the mess. Then I went off to do something else and forgot to empty the bucket.
Two weeks later when I looked in the bucket there was a thick layer of pond scum on the remaining water.
Clearly the 8 ounces of bleach that I had added to the roughly 4 gallons of water had gone somewhere else.
Had I added some fresh poop to the mix and let it sit two weeks in a warm garage....... well........ I will let your imagination fill in the blanks.
Bottom line: Septic systems are re-inoculated several times a day with untold billions of bacteria and relatively huge amounts of organic material for the critters to feed on.
An occasional bolus of chlorine cannot possibly do long lasting harm to such a thriving, massive culture.
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Upon further refection I have come up with another facet to the story.
My opinions and observations are based upon the premise that septic systems are self regulating and self sustaining.
In other words, outside bacteria are not necessary to start the septic reaction or sustain it.
Maybe someone out there has some experience with bacterial matters and can weigh in on this premise.
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The previous owner of my present home NEVER pumped out the septic tank..... for something like 18 years running.
She did, however put the freeze dried bugs down the toilet once a month or so.
When I had the system pumped there was just the usual amount of goop on the bottom of the tank that one would see with pumping at three year intervals.
The pump guy was quite surprised when I told him how long it had been since the septic had been pumped.
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