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Garden - digging round a septic tank.
I have a septic tank . Its a brick built two chamber type built about
1958. Currently the area around it ( drainage field?) is covered in grass. I am tired of grass and fed up of mowing all the time. Its a good long stretch of ground to the right of the house and runs for a good 200 feet before hitting the back section which is overgrown and I cant seem to do anything with at all. ( was greenhouses but they were dismantled long ago) and would be ideal as a garden area to be honest. Is there any reason I cannot take off the grass and dig this area up to put in a garden? Would I disturb the drains or something? The other side of the garden has a lot of trees and bushes in and a couple of greenhouses and a summerhouse so its not possible to put in more garden there without taking down these items. The back is overgrown with a hedge and there isn't much I can do with that at all except gravel it and keep it tidy. |
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Garden - digging round a septic tank.
"Charlie Pridham" wrote in message T... In article , says... I have a septic tank . Its a brick built two chamber type built about 1958. Currently the area around it ( drainage field?) is covered in grass. I am tired of grass and fed up of mowing all the time. Its a good long stretch of ground to the right of the house and runs for a good 200 feet before hitting the back section which is overgrown and I cant seem to do anything with at all. ( was greenhouses but they were dismantled long ago) and would be ideal as a garden area to be honest. Is there any reason I cannot take off the grass and dig this area up to put in a garden? Would I disturb the drains or something? The other side of the garden has a lot of trees and bushes in and a couple of greenhouses and a summerhouse so its not possible to put in more garden there without taking down these items. The back is overgrown with a hedge and there isn't much I can do with that at all except gravel it and keep it tidy. It may be possible to find the exact location of the drains by having the ground surveyed but the pipes are normally more than 18" down so shallow cultivation wont harm them. avoid planting trees or large shrubs and I can see no particular problems, after all most of us with septic tanks do not run to the luxuary of a seperated drainage zone just the regular garden :~) -- I lived in a house with a septic tank of the type you describe for many years. Look into the second chamber and you will see the outlet pipe. You don't even need to see the pipe as the liquid level with also indicate how deep the pipe is buried. Normal cultivation will not take you anywhere near it normally. I had a patch of fruit bushes quite close to my tank above the drainage field. They grew well and produced massive crops of currents and gooseberries. Whenever I get the ever inflating water bills I wish we were on septic tanks still. Mike |
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