Does salt bother a septic tank?

i dump mine in the toilet and it auto flushes from being to full, then it goes down the lines pretty quick. could be a solution.

 

Absolutely not. Otherwise it would be an "aseptic tank" (), and it would fill up very quickly with solid waste matter, instead of breaking those solids down and leaching them harmlessly into the earth.

Bacteria is hard mutha to kill, especially in a container of human excrement.

Which - you know what? I think answers my original question!;D

 

pour it on the sidewalk or driveway or neighbors flower bed.

 

My father-in-law has been installing both conventional and alternative septic systems for over 40 years. I asked him this question and he told me absoloutely DO NOT drain salt water to my septic system. I'm not saying that there haven't been people who have gotten away with it but you don't want to even imagine who expensive or how messy it is to repair a damaged septic system.

 

I know our mound system is a 75' mound with two 1000 gallon tanks. Each tank is set to pump when they hold 250 gallons. So, 500 gallons + what ever is in the mound is quite a bit of freshwater in comparison to the volume of saltwater used during a water change.

Now, with that being said, I know that salt and limestone don't play nice (simple chemistry). A mound system contains plenty of sand, but also contains a layer of limestone gravel. I could also see the salt collecting in the sand layer, which could also cause detriment to the bacterial colony in the mound.

Just my $0.02

Oh, and I put my waste saltwater outside (actually in our rock garden)

 

I know we all use bleach in our white laundry. That has to be worse than SW being flushed. bleach will kill even the bacteria that is near invincible.



I will start hauling my old SW, instead of dumping it down the drain.


Or , what if I put a drain tile in the concrete floor that would allow the water to go into the ground??

 

i have my laundry fluids drain on my lawn not my septic, too much lint in washer to put in my drain field. salt water goes on driveway.

 

i siphone out my window onto my driveway with a long hose

 

All searches I have done say it does not harm septic systems, in fact it helps in cases of clay soils in your leech field since it helps break down clay structure. People have been backwashing water softeners into septic systems for decades and its no big deal.

 

The actual concentration of the bleach in laundry water is much much less than the salt would be from doing water changes on the average tank.