How do you dispose of your saltwater?

meowzer

meowzer

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Originally Posted by Cranberry
http:///forum/post/3065327
I bet you get odd looks from your neighbours.
When I lived in an apartment I would drain the water through a piping system to a bucket on the balcony. At night it would pump over the balcony. After 10 years of doing this the grass wasn't growing there so well.
LOL...NEIGHBORS...what are they???? My closest "neighbor" is over a mile away
I live in the woods
 
deejeff442

deejeff442

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meowser how long have you been putting it in the septic?
right between my 225 and 90 is my 50 gallon mix tank which is right next to water pipes and sink drain.i have been putting the old water in 5gallon buckets and walking them out the door making a mud mess.
as long as i know i can put it into the septic ,hell i can just pump it into the drain.there was going to be a sink there but the old owner didnt finish the home before he got transfered for work.i have my ro right next to the mix tank.its sweet although i have been known to forget to shut it off at night waking up remembering in my sleep.it has only overflowed a few times.
i change out 45 gallons at a time.
but in a 1500 gallon septic dont seem like much.
any chance you knew the unibomber?
 
king_neptune

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for those who dump in the septic....we own our land and we have our own septic that i personally dug, shot, layed and filled. I guess when your the personal home owner you are really cautious...my point is:
are you dumping in a septic that is your own? or a rental? or perhaps it just goes down to the city?
I take second thoughts about saltwater and all its buildup caking around, and eventually plugging, the 1/4 inch drainage holes in the lines that run up and down a field. not to mention...what kind of build up can one expect inside the tank itself.
also our water is our own private well. now i personally don't have any fears that saltwater is going to seep down 180 feet and contaminate the underground spring fed by Mt Reineer. But it was a concern my dad had, so im willing to throw it out there.
but back to the dumping it outside...sounds like I just need to pick a patch of ground off in the back woods....mabee dig a small hole...and dump it there. and by doing so...im really not harming anything other than the small immediate area.
 
meowzer

meowzer

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Originally Posted by deejeff442
http:///forum/post/3065468
meowser how long have you been putting it in the septic?
right between my 225 and 90 is my 50 gallon mix tank which is right next to water pipes and sink drain.i have been putting the old water in 5gallon buckets and walking them out the door making a mud mess.
as long as i know i can put it into the septic ,hell i can just pump it into the drain.there was going to be a sink there but the old owner didnt finish the home before he got transfered for work.i have my ro right next to the mix tank.its sweet although i have been known to forget to shut it off at night waking up remembering in my sleep.it has only overflowed a few times.
i change out 45 gallons at a time.
but in a 1500 gallon septic dont seem like much.
any chance you knew the unibomber?
Oh for about 10 months now..LOL...Remember you should have lines that the fluids flow through...leech fields or something like that...so you're not filling up your septic by this water flowing through it.
I'm sorry...but I don't get the unibomber question
 
deejeff442

deejeff442

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gunite shot concrete.
most septics are precast.
either a leech system(which sucks )
or sprinkler type emptying system
i own my own septic and well.
i dont know anyone who rents septics.
as for build up you are supposed to have te tanks removed of solids every other year or so around $400.
i only worry about the salt destroying the good bacteria in the tank.
the unibomber lived in the wood far away from everyone.
 
meowzer

meowzer

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Originally Posted by deejeff442
http:///forum/post/3065491
gunite shot concrete.
most septics are precast.
either a leech system(which sucks )
or sprinkler type emptying system
i own my own septic and well.
i dont know anyone who rents septics.
as for build up you are supposed to have te tanks removed of solids every other year or so around $400.
i only worry about the salt destroying the good bacteria in the tank.
So buy that RIDX stuff....it's fairly cheap, and you can flush it every couple of months or so.....
I think you are supposed to have septic tanks emptied 5-7 years....but that also depends on usage....a family of 10 may need it sooner

OHHHH...I live out in the country....I am not a serial killer...LOL
 
king_neptune

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using a transit.
a transit is the "Telescope" thing surveyors use. one person holds a stick with height written on it on it(giant ruler).
the counter person eyes it through the telescope, directing the stick man to raise or lower the height. since you have a base point of referance(the position of the transit which doesnt move)
you get perfect readings at any spot on the porperty.
How this comes in to play?
say...i want the slope of the septic field to drop 2 inches every 3 feet(poop slides down hill), i pick my reference point. look at the ruler,(lets make an imaginary number) the cross hairs are on +6 feet, now I have the stick man step back 3 feet. the next shot should say +6ft 2in. This indicates the stick went 2 inches deeper than the previous shot.
if i see its higher or lower...he needs to dig or raise the dirt level. the process is simple, but time consuming. with these tools. I know how to dig up every piece of plumbing thats under ground. evin stuff thats a dozen feet down and buried 20 years ago .
 
deejeff442

deejeff442

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not yet ,ever see the shining?

also never seen a septic go to the city water,if you have city water you dont need a septic.
the septic maintance company said every other year for solids but maybe they need work?
funny my wife picked up a box of ridex yesterday i need to put in tonight before bed.
 
fishkid13

fishkid13

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I don't see what is the big scare. Water or anything for that matter has the potentialy to destory/ ruin anything. If you dump it into your yard you plants will be happy but some things will be washed away and if is really salty and in the same spot things may soon die. So what is the big deal about puting into the septic or city lines or dumping it in a hole or throwing it out the window?
 
king_neptune

king_neptune

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Originally Posted by deejeff442
http:///forum/post/3065491
gunite shot concrete.
most septics are precast.
either a leech system(which sucks )
or sprinkler type emptying system
i own my own septic and well.
i dont know anyone who rents septics.
as for build up you are supposed to have te tanks removed of solids every other year or so around $400.
i only worry about the salt destroying the good bacteria in the tank.
the unibomber lived in the wood far away from everyone.
by rent...i meant do you pay for public works(city dwellers)
or do you rent a house that you dont own(meaning...i dont care if I break someone else stuff because im a renter its what we do).
but thanks you hold a bit more credibility than most...based on your above answer, i feel a bit more at ease.
 
king_neptune

king_neptune

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Originally Posted by Bulldog123
http:///forum/post/3065507
I understand all to well. I thought maybe your were a fellow powdermonkey.

me no, but that would be a cool job. what kind of demo do you specialize in?
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I think Ill give my brother a call. hes a civil/structural engineer. Owns his own firm, he knows a bit more than most, since...well its his but on the line if he doesn'
^
don't know why i didn't think of it earlier, sigh....now i get to brace myself for some long winded "I'm intelligent and its my Prerogative to use big fancy words and topics to make myself look smart" lecture on saltwater into poop lines^^
oh ya...that's probably why I didn't ask him firs
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bulldog123

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Road cuts, house foundation,pipelining, leach fields,anything where there is rock! I dont do building. Those people are much smarter then me.
 
drtito

drtito

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Originally Posted by NanoMantis
http:///forum/post/3065269
Have you ever heard of 'salting the earth'? If you dump saltwater in the same location and it isnt washed away, after a period of time nothing will be able to grow there.
I dump it in the toilet.
I have poured the waste water in the same spot for some years now and nothing grows there. Even the unwanted tree at the end of the drain died from the salt.
Heres a Question that I have always wanted to ask....if I dried out the waste water could the salt still be used ???
 
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