[Shop-talk] Shop-talk Digest, Vol 8, Issue 156

[Jim Franklin]

On 10/29/2014 6:29 PM, Scott wrote:
> Anyway, I wonder if septic tanks are similar. We just replaced ours, 
> and the tank is huge now, as are the leach lines. Maybe you just get 
> the gigantor tank, and the lines spend a week draining. 

Sure, that would work for us, but the next owner may throw a 25 person 
party every day. Needs to be designed for maximum load, which is related 
to the # bedrooms * soil absorption capacity.

We visit a ski lodge every spring and about every other year the tank 
overflows, usually right around the time we're all on the lawn digging 
into dinner[1]...

jim

[1] I typo'd that as donner, which is funny on a few levels given the 
location of the land I'm looking at...