I recently learned that our basement floor drains are connected to our septic tank lateral field.
Do floor drains run to septic.
Basement floor drains don t get a lot of attention until the sewer backs up or the basement smells like an outhouse.
An ejector pump failure caused our floor drains back up and floods the basement.
You absolutely do not want to put the floor drains foundation water or gutter rain water into the septic system.
The waste pipe must maintain a minimum 1 4 inch per foot slope at every point along its path to the septic tank.
Are you sure that you do not have a cistern for collection of water to be used for watering the grass etc.
The first extends from the house the system services to the tank where the waste separates and.
It takes two runs of pipe to make a septic system.
Similarly the vent pipe must maintain the same minimum slope toward the toilet drain.
It will wash the waste of the septic system out into the drain field and plug it.
To me these lines should have never have been run to the septic.
A real bozo no no.