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The aerobic organisms in municipal waste treatment Posted by RS [Email] (#15) [Profile/Gallery] (more from RS) on Wed, 7 Apr 2004 07:47:43 In Reply to: Not true - your septic system would love it>, ChipJ, Wed, 7 Apr 2004 07:34:13 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
plants are OK with it, but all of the EPA (and state guidelines) strongly warn about pouring it into a septic system. The anaerobic bugs don't react nearly as nicely. Part of this is because the concentration of glycol poured into a 200 or so GPD septic system is many orders of magnigude higher than it would be for the same amount of glycol entering a wastewater treatment plant that receives hundreds of thousands of GPD up to many MGD (millions of gallons per day).
Not to mention all of the metabolites from the bugs that survive and some raw glycol that goes out into your leachfield. Mmmmmm. Brown lawn.
RS (SAABer, I&C engineer, former wastewater process engineer)
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