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11-27-2002, 05:20

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Drain field and vegetable garden

I put the same question to our district health officer several years ago. He couldn't find any rules but thought that my 50' from a leeching pit and further from the field itself should be OK. The government here is rule happy so I guess if there was much of a risk there'd be a rule for it.

I think the basic idea is that effluent moves out and down purifying itself as it goes and it already start out several feet down. Mind you I don't think I'd want to grow root crops over a field that was subject to backing up or overflowing. A few winters ago our toilet flapper valve stuck open when we were out for the day. The next spring there was indication that quite a bit of water had run underneath the snow. I guess that would be water of unknown quality. The few times I've been around a field that was leaking into surface drainage, the drainage hasn't smelled great.

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I'm curious about the recommendation for trees around a leech field. I always thought you didn't want trees around because the roots tend to grow into the drain tiles and clog the system. Maybe that's just some kinds of trees--willows for example.

The rap on additives I've heard is that some can do some real damage if used excessively when trying to cure a backed up system. The idea is that if a leech field is running too slow and a tank is pretty full of undigested material, then partially liquidifying the tank contents so a lot of goes out goes out into the leech field may make things worse. Some past comments here said that material has bubbled out of vents and leech fields had to be replaced due to excessive use of additives, yeast etc. The stuff that's advertised as 'cleans your septic tank' seems like an oxymoron. I don't think that cleaning one is the idea.

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