Miami Septic Tanks - Your septic tank must be pumped regularly
Your Miami septic system, when compared to urban and suburban living areas, functions as a mini sewer system, and as a mini waste treatment plant. All household waste is disposed to the septic system.
The termination point of your septic system is the environment. What you put into your septic system and how you choose to maintain it are important. Your septic system is buried in the ground and consists of some piping, a watertight tank and a leaching field.
The leaching field consists of a network of perforated pipes laid just under the surface of the ground in a pattern on a bed of gravel. In a healthy system, clear water exits the septic tank and enters the perforated pipe network of the leaching field. It drains into the gravel, is absorbed by the surrounding soil and evaporates up into the air above the field. If anything other than clear water exits your septic tank into the leaching field piping, both the leaching field and the environment suffer.
A Miami septic tank is a watertight box. When household waste enters this box, organic material floats to the surface where bacteria biologically convert it to liquid. We will call this the floating layer. Inorganic material and by-products of bacterial digestion do not float. They sink to the bottom of the tank and accumulate, creating a sludge layer. Water entering the tank occupies the space between the floating layer and the sludge layer. A large clear water layer is important in a healthy septic tank.
Trouble begins when material from either the floating layer or the sludge layer exits the septic tank to the leaching field. This will clog the field's piping system and bring harmful unprocessed waste in contact with ground soils and ground water.
Your Miami septic tank must be pumped regularly. For our customers this happens automatically and at different intervals. How often your septic tank must be pumped is determined by:
- The physical size of your tank ( its volume )
- The number of people it supports
- The frequency of showers
- Laundry, flushing, etc.
- How much inorganic material is introduced
- The design and condition of your leaching field
- And the type of soil in the area of your leaching field