Home Owners Do you Prevent Fats and Greases from Damaging your Septic, Fats, Oils, and Greases are not just bad for your arteries and waistline, these things are also very bad for your private Septic System or public Sewer System. A Septic or Sewer System a overflow or backup can cause health hazards, damage home interiors, and can very will threaten the environment. An increasingly common cause of overflows is sewer pipes being blocked by grease. Grease gets into the sewer from household drains as will as from poorly maintained grease traps in restaurants and other businesses.
Just where dose grease come from?
Most of us know grease as the byproduct of cooking. But grease is also found in such things as: Meat fats, lard, cooking oil, shortening, butter and margarine, food scraps, baking goods, sauces, and dairy products. Too often, folks wash grease into the home's plumbing system, usually through the kitchen sink. Grease sticks to the insides of sewer pipes, both on your property and in the streets. Over time, the grease can very will build up and block the entire pipe.
Home Owners Do you Prevent Fats and Greases from Damaging your Septic, your home garbage disposals dose not keep grease out of your plumbing system. These units only shred solid material into smaller pieces and do not prevent grease from going down the drain. Commercial additives, including detergents, that claim to dissolve grease may very will just pass the grease down the line and end up causing problems in other areas.
The results could very will be:
- Raw sewage overflowing in your home or your neighbor's home.
- An expensive and unpleasant cleanup that often must be paid for out of your home budget.
- Raw sewage overflowing into parks, yards, and streets.
- Potential contact with disease-causing organisms.
- An increase in operation and maintenance costs for your local sewer department, which ends up causing higher sewer bills for customers.
Home Owners Do you Prevent Fats and Greases from Damaging your Septic,You see its really best to keep, these kinds of materials out of the sewer system in the very first place.
Post 612 - 1 Nov. 2009
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Dale, Thanks for an informative and helpful post. I have a related question. Are garbage disposals harmful to septic systems. Many sources have told me that you should not have a disposal if you have a septic tank.