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[scotchandcigar]

5/11/16
This is when we found a buyer for our house in NH. We put it on the market in April. We closed on the land in Maine the previous December. After this date, we started clearing stuff out of the house, and looking for a rental.

Also on that date, a small tractor cleared out an area on the new property to site the leach field.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

leach field? You want to grow leaches?

 

[scotchandcigar]

leach field? You want to grow leaches?

If I need leaches, I can just jump into a lake. But at the moment, I don't need any poison sucked out of me.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

If I need leaches, I can just jump into a lake. But at the moment, I don't need any poison sucked out of me.

Ok can you clarify this statement? I thought you were building a leach field hence my question.

Also on that date, a small tractor cleared out an area on the new property to site the leach field.

 

[scotchandcigar]

Ok can you clarify this statement? I thought you were building a leach field hence my question.

And I thought you were joking. The half of the world that's not on city sewer uses a septic tank and leach (leaching) field. Surely you're not that unaware, right?

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

And I thought you were joking. The half of the world that's not on city sewer uses a septic tank and leach (leaching) field. Surely you're not that unaware, right?

I have heard of septic tanks (what is used at our lake in SK) but never leaching fields. Sounds kind of gross.

 

[sadchild]

I also have a leach field. And I also thought you were joking.

 

[scotchandcigar]

I have heard of septic tanks (what is used at our lake in SK) but never leaching fields. Sounds kind of gross.

If you're on a lake, you have a holding tank. The entire thing has to be pumped often. But for the rest of the world (over 50% of the US and Canada) the septic tank processes the solids, and the liquids go to a leach field. It's literally how the majority of homes in much of the world works. It's astonishing that a person in their mid-60s is being told this for the first time. I also detailed this in the Construction thread. Same with well water vs. city water.

 

[scotchandcigar]

Ok, according to AI, it's 50% in the northeast. And also big in the south and southeast. But 25% nationally, because much of the construction in California and the west is in clusters, where water and sewer are in the design.

In the west, you have deserts and mountains, so houses are clustered in buildable areas. And they are newer. But anywhere that houses are acres apart, it's unlikely to have miles and miles of sewer pipes and processing systems.

 

[scotchandcigar]

For reference, we discuss septic systems and leach fields on page 2 through 4 of the Construction thread.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

I missed it. And I have heard about those type of systems but calling them leach fields is/was unknown to me.

 

[Aaron]

Same, I know the concept but I’ve never heard anyone where I live use that term. Probably referred to as a drain field here