The Way Septic Tanks Operate
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by: Adriana Noton
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Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 Time: 1:53 PM
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Septic tanks are integral parts of most waste water treatment systems. They have become so common that they are the most widely used systems in the country. This is especially true in rural areas where there are not public sewage systems designed to assist homeowners.
You will find septic tanks as the dominant means of waste water management in all rural areas. These tanks have become the replacement for the older and less hygienic and safe means of waste treatment. The older methods included the cesspool. The cesspool was a structure where waste water was deposited into cesspit and would slowly leach out.
The problem with this method was that there was no way to breakdown the sewage. The sewage simply exited the cesspit and left behind solid residue. The solid reside did not break down and therefore the cesspit became clogged and would need to be tended to. These devices were unhealthy, costly, and dangerous.
The current septic tank has improved upon the theory of waste storage by including a means of waste elimination. For starters there is a field outside the tank which is known as a leach field. This leach field will take the water that exits the tank and filter it. This is an added means of removing impurities. This leach field is simply a section of land where small bits of rubble or stone are laid under the earth. The water travels thorough this and is essentially moving thought a giant filter.
A small home will have a small leach field, and so on. They are designed to handle the amount of waste water produced. However, its size is not something that others will notice. It is under the earth. From an outside observer it appears to be nothing more than a lawn.
It must be remembered that a septic tank has the added benefit over a cesspool in that it is not simply a stone lined hole. It is constructed out of materials that will not collapse. It is also placed inside a second container. These precautions arose because of the dangerous accidents that have occurred over the years with cesspits.
The actual way in which a septic tank works is quite simple. Water comes into the tank from a pipe. This pipe is connected to the house and takes all waste water. That waste water is piped into the septic tank and the water leaves and filters thorough the leach field. The solid aspects of the waste settle at the floor of the tank.
These tanks require less cleaning than cesspools. The reason is that unlike cesspools where the waste simply accumulates, in septic tanks that solid material begins to break down. The name septic tank is used because the waste is in a septic environment. Simply put, this means that the solid material will breakdown in a septic environment whereas it will remain sold in a cesspit.
Once the solid material breaks up and is decomposed in the septic environment it exits out the same pipe as the water did when everything first entered the tank. The majority of material that enters into a septic system can be broken down and it is certainly more efficiently and more healthily eliminated then previous systems.
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