GROUNDWATER ⇨ SEPTIC/RURAL WASTEWATER

What’s the Story?

Trickle, trickle…. Seeping slowly through underground layers of sand, clay, gravel, and rock, water makes its way into a rural septic tank that is processing the used “wastewater” from a home. Groundwater moves slowly with gravity and water pressure, but when it rains a lot, the water table will rise as the air spaces in the ground fill up with percolating rain and the ground becomes more saturated or even flooded, closer to the surface where septic tanks are buried. As septic tanks age, they can develop cracks where groundwater can leak in. Hopefully this doesn’t overflow the tank and leak polluted water out into the environment!

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