We poop and pee directly onto the ground here in Gujarat India. Many of us meet in the mornings along the shoreline before high tide comes in to drop of the obampas. It's a magical moment.
This style system has some advantages but not near the extent to which you are claiming. More so, the infiltrator style leach system is critically sensitive to soil type. The system is guaranteed to FAIL if your soil type does not contain a sufficient and somewhat significant percentage of clay. This type system SHOULD NOT BE installed in areas where the soil type is loam or high sand content. Before you commit to installing this type of system make absolutely certain you know your soil type.
If your soil type is loam or sandy and has insufficient clay content it will ABSOLUTELY find its way into the chamber cavity and when it does your surface will collapse and cave in. Voice of experience talking and just Google "infiltrator septic system failures" and see what comes up. This system might be reliable in hard clay but if it is so hard that you have little to no permeability and the affluent can't soak into the base clay type soil you might have a problem under high volume load conditions. Make sure your perk test evaluates your soil's permeability to the full depth of the chamber heights and another 12' beyond that.
I also live in N GA, near McCaysville. My soil type was tested and shown to be Evard, one of the best types for leach fields (red GA clay). For a two-bedroom residential home, I was approved for an infiltrator system. According to my permit on a percolation rate of 45, I need 132 linear feet of "Quick 4 High Capacity - 14" product with a 1,000 ga. tank.
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Thank you Eric Hemard for your thorough explanation of how it works! It was difficult for me to grasp as well as I didn't understand the absorption rate principle as you so brilliantly explained. These companies should hire you as a consultant, in my opinion. Thank you Jonathon Neville for posing a great question. Cheers - Peter
I have seen some of the Infiltrator chambers that look like they have "rather large open slots" in the top of the plastic chamber -- Wouldn't it just fill up with dirt sifting down into the chamber? What the heck? Why no filter material then stone or dirt?
At 4:00, it says sidewalls prevent soil intrusion? how? i find that hard to believe. Perhaps the amount of intrusion is not excessive - perhaps the volume is only reduced by 5% or so within the first week, 10% within the first year, 25% over 20 years... ???
Evaporate? As in a soggy lawn? Sure, there is some evaporation, but the majority of the water is dispersed into the ground, not into the air. In cold areas, the surface is frozen during winter, and very little evaporative action will take place. 'Common sense'
In New York state, snow on the ground in the winter, wet spring and fall, rainy summers with high humidity are all added to clay soil if you live in the wrong area.
The chambers are laid level. Water (effluent) does not pile up in piles,- it seeks and immediately levels into the entire are provided…if it doesn’t all integrate into the ground before it reaches that point.
I have yet to find anything explaining how it is that the water manages to get down to the end of a 50-100 ft run of these systems. Without lots of velocity/pressure won't the water just soak into the ground within the first 5-10 ft.? I have an old pump-less system so I think that would just make matters worse.
From first hand experience, max run per line is roughly 50’ - 60’ depending on the requirements of the system. A 100’ run is broken down to 2- 25’ lines thus reducing the amount of space which is required compared to conventional leach lines. Adding 1/8” of slope per foot assist with the fill capacity of the chambers (other wise known as surge capacity). There is no flow created by pressure. Its just over flow from the septic tank to the chambers. If you add 17 gallons of waste to the septic tank, you’ll discharge roughly 15 gallons of effluent. Gravity does all the work. Hope this helps.
@@erichemard7066 Are you saying that adding 1/8"-per-foot slope more than regular slope (1/8" or 1/4" per foot) is enough to distribute the effluent 25 feet? (A sincere question.)
So you guys think that septic is really going to hold up to test ? well got news for you... It wont last ... Infiltrator are bound to fail faster than conventional drain fields due to the green house effect of moister cannot or will not be able to evaporate. There are hundreds or even thousands of them already in failure regardless of soil type. I should know i inspect them, Tested them, Removed them etc.
conventional Stone bed, how old is the home ? does the septic have a distribution box if so let me know. you can always text my phone for answers. Please dont call it unless you are going o let me know 1st because if not i wont pick up out of state call. 732-864-7380
Looks Good in Animation but wait til its installed and working for a short period of times when you find yourself ripping it up. Chamber have green house effect where there is not evaporation resulting failure.
Hi Bill, Many thanks for your comments. We do not use this for septic systems in the UK. Septic waste must be drained through a well constructed drainage field using gravel and perforated pipe. We also allow air to flow through to aid growth of aerobic bacteria within the drainage field. Thanks again for your comments :)