Building a Macerator pump

[chessie4905]

I don't know if it is a good idea to dump, say 50 to 100 gallons of sewage into your septic at once through the 3" hose. Maybe it could force solids into the drain field. I have wondered about it for a while since I have a train hooked to my septic also. Forgot to ask the guy that pumps it every three years@ $300.😠

[richard5933]

I don't know if it is a good idea to dump, say 50 to 100 gallons of sewage into your septic at once through the 3" hose. Maybe it could force solids into the drain field. I have wondered about it for a while since I have a train hooked to my septic also. Forgot to ask the guy that pumps it every three years@ $300.😠

We have two 1,000-gal tanks on our septic, then downhill to the drain field. I had the tanks pumps this fall, and the guy said that there were hardly any solids in the second tank. Just two of us in the house, but it's been three years since they were pumped.

If the system is working as it should and you don't do it often, I don't think that dumping the bus into the septic is going to be that big a deal. There are internal baffles inside the tanks which are supposed to keep the solids and fats from leaving the tank. Of course, YMMV

[Dave5Cs]

My black tank and grey tanks are only 45 gallon and I am on city sewer. Don't know about rv parks but they get it everyday multiple times. As long as you don't mess up the top cake you should be fine.

[dtcerrato]

Had to redo our almost 40 yo septic. Hadn't pumped it but a couple times, when it filled with sludge it filled & caked up the field. It was also root bound so now the new arc septic system (not the tank) gets a dose of salt once a month to steer roots away

[chessie4905]

Do you use Rid X occasionally?

[dtcerrato]

A few times, not really...

[sledhead]

I don't know if it is a good idea to dump, say 50 to 100 gallons of sewage into your septic at once through the 3" hose. Maybe it could force solids into the drain field. I have wondered about it for a while since I have a train hooked to my septic also. Forgot to ask the guy that pumps it every three years@ $300.😠

I have had the sewer clean out on my house since 2009 when I built the house and I have used it to dump my tanks ever since .
never had any problems and the guy that sucks it dry tells me all is good .

so should we all go to a composting toilet ? like

https://www.homedepot.ca/product/sun-mar-excel-non-electric-waterless-high-capacity-self-contained-composting-toilet-in-white/1000689271?eid=PS_GOOGLE_D29B%20-%20E-Comm_GGL_Shopping_PLA_EN_Bath_Bath_PLA_EN__PRODUCT_GROUP_aud-765569715721:pla-343353862943&gclid=Cj0KCQiA5bz-BRD-ARIsABjT4ngOGjBN7vZNYggpJUMteGCsj9ddAYN0JF1ojjV13UCbVLNJ-NEw7LUaApY9EALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

not for me

remember the old plumber saying

pay day is on Friday and $#!% flows down hill



dave

[luvrbus]

Oxygen level is important for bacteria to survive in septic system ,I had mine pumped after 15 years it wasn't bad because we watch the chemicals used for cleaning CLR with deplete the oxygen and the bacteria dies.a lot of house cleaners will deplete the oxygen in a septic system 

[richard5933]

Our septic system was installed in 1991, best we can tell from the county's permit book. Two 1,000-gal tanks feeding three 75-ft drain tiles in the field down the hill. The system gets pumped every three years. Local code calls for pumping and/or inspection every three years, but the cost difference between inspecting and pumping is so small we have them pump every time.

Only a few basic rules we follow...No harsh cleaners down the drain, no use of garbage disposal (don't have one), and don't flush any paper product that hasn't wiped an a$$. We've been here since 2001 and have not had any problems, and it doesn't appear there were any before we got here. No chemicals or additives are necessary - those bacteria can just do their work silently in the tanks if you leave them alone.

These systems are not really that complicated, and unless something is wrong with the baffles it's unlikely that dumping an RV tank once in a while is going to upset the works.

[luvrbus]

My tank is 1200 gals and visitors have been dumping in it for years at the place in Mohave Valley and I dump there too never a problem yet,here in Scottsdale I don't have a dump yet but working on it so I need the macerator to keep from driving 20 miles and paying $15.00 to dump.We have a 2500 gal septic tank here in Scottsdale and like lots of places in AZ no field lines,they drill a vertical shaft 18in dia x 100 ft deep and fill it with rocks we have 2 of those and it works our tank has a oxygen monitor we watch       

[Busted Knuckle]

I don't know if it is a good idea to dump, say 50 to 100 gallons of sewage into your septic at once through the 3" hose. Maybe it could force solids into the drain field. I have wondered about it for a while since I have a train hooked to my septic also. Forgot to ask the guy that pumps it every three years@ $300.😠

At our old shop in Union City we dumped all our buses in the septic tank via the clean out next to the shop. In the 5 yrs we were there we never had a problem with the system and at one time we were operating 9 buses and every one of them was being dumped 1-2 times a week (or more!)

No idea what size the tank was or anything about the field drains.
We just dumped and figured if we ever had a problem we'd get it pumped and look for a solution from there!
   BK 

[dtcerrato]

My tank is 1200 gals and visitors have been dumping in it for years at the place in Mohave Valley and I dump there too never a problem yet,here in Scottsdale I don't have a dump yet but working on it so I need the macerator to keep from driving 20 miles and paying $15.00 to dump.We have a 2500 gal septic tank here in Scottsdale and like lots of places in AZ no field lines,they drill a vertical shaft 18in dia x 100 ft deep and fill it with rocks we have 2 of those and it works our tank has a oxygen monitor we watch     

Clifford, Art Carney was one of my favorites maybe because when I was growing he was a lot like my dad who was superintendent of water & sewer in So.FL. Haha. More to the point is your description of your septic system is really interesting & wasn't aware of that type of design.