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The Septic Protector
The Septic Protector was specifically designed to remove these damaging materials before they go down the drain and plug your system. septic protectorMost septic failures occur when the drainfield gets plugged with solids that were supposed to stay in the tank. Effluent filters, $50 to $100, are installed (by a contractor...not a do-it-yourself project) in the exit baffle of the tank and stop the LARGER solids from getting out to the drainfield. These filters are cleaned when you have your tank inspected...Cheap insurance and along with a washing machine filter, one of the best things you can do to protect your system from failure.
Think about this...in most cases when a septic system fails it`s not the tank that is failing; it`s because the drainfield/soil got plugged-up with solids and will no longer allow water to pass through it. Pretty simple isn`t it. One of the best ways to prevent solids from plugging the soil is by using filters (gee, that was a tough one). Washing machines are a leading source of the solids that plug drainfields.
A typical family discharges enough lint every year to carpet a living room floor! Lint screens and nylon socks trap less than 5% of these contaminates. These minute particles, because they are so small and light, do not settle in the septic tank, rather they stay in suspension and are flushed out to the drainfield where they actually plug-up the pores of the soil bed.
To compound the problem much of our clothing and carpeting is now manufactured with synthetics, polyester, nylon etc... Septic systems do not breakdown plastics! Once these non-organic materials enter the drainfield, there is no way to remove them.