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• Septic tank pumping; how to find and when to pump the septic tank.
• Septic drainfield inspection, testing, diagnosis, & repair procedures

The text in these articles gives instructions for septic system maintenance and care, such as the schedule for septic tank pumping or septic service, the use of septic products and additives, the diagnosis of clogged drains, and what you can plant over the septic system. The septic maintenance articles listed here provide the key information a home owner or home buyer needs to know about septic system maintenance and repair.

We address septic care procedures including: the septic tank pumping schedule, details of the septic tank pumpout procedure, and details of how to inspect septic tanks before, during, and after pumping. We include additional in-depth septic system inspection, maintenance and repair articles.

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SEPTIC MAINTENANCE - Septic Tank / Septic System Maintenance and Repair: Key Articles and Resources

Septic Tank Pumping Frequency guidelines are at Tank Pumping.

Septic Tank Pumping Procedure details are at Septic Tank Pumping Procedure, a step by step photo guideline of how to pump and clean a septic tank - septic tank care.

Septic Tank Inspection Procedure details are at Inspecting Septic Tanks how to inspect septic tanks for damage

This page provides a collection of additional articles on when, why, and how to maintain a septic system.

• The Septic System Information Website home page for this topic
• Septic Systems Inspection, Testing, & Maintenance- online textbook. Detailed how to inspect, maintain, repair information


• Additives & Chemicals: Septic System Treatments - Are they needed? Are they legal?
• Clogged Drain Diagnosis - is the problem the septic system or the Building drain system?
• Contamination in Buildings how to test buildings for bacterial contamination from Sewage and Septic backup, remediation, & references
• Drainfield Inspection Procedure Septic Leach Fields - how to inspect and diagnose septic drainfield failures
• Drainfield Layout: septic drainfield or leaching bed shape and placement considerations
• Drainfield Location: how to find the septic drain field or leaching bed
• Don't Flush these things into a septic system: a list of what's ok and what's not ok to put into septic tanks and building drains
• Inspecting Septic Tanks how to inspect septic tanks for damage
• Leach Field Inspection Procedure Septic Leach Fields - how to inspect and diagnose septic drainfield failures
• Maintenance: Ten Steps to Keeping a Septic System Working, suggestions from the U.S. EPA, edits and additions by DJF
• Planting Over Septic Systems: trees, shrubs, groundcover over the septic system: what can you plant over or near septic system components without causing a problem?
• Safety: Septic System, Septic Tank, & Cesspool Safety Warnings for Septic Inspectors, Septic Pumpers, and Homeowners
• Septic Tank Sludge and Floating Scum: what makes up the contents of residential sewage
• Sewage & Septic Backups and what to do about sewage spillage in buildings
• Sewage Contaminants potentially released from onsite septic systems and wastewater disposal systems
• Sewer Gas Odors diagnosing, finding, and curing septic tank and sewer line smells
• Sewer Gas - Methane and other septic system gas explosion or asphyxiation hazards such as hydrogen sulfide
• Septic Tank Inspection Procedure - How to Inspect Septic Tanks and evaluate the septic tank condition, baffles, sludge levels, damage, evidence of septic failure, etc.
• Septic Tank Sludge and Floating Scum: what makes up the contents of residential sewage
• Septic Treatments for drainfield restoration or rejuvenation; septic tank additives, septic field chemicals, pressures,
• Tank Location - How to Find the Septic Tank, how deep will the cover be, how to document its location
• Tank Pumping Schedule Frequency Guide for Septic Tanks: When, How, What to Watch For when pumping or cleaning septic tanks
• Tank Pumping Procedure step by step photo guideline of how to pump and clean a septic tank
• Ten Steps to Keeping a Septic System Working, suggestions from the U.S. EPA, edits and additions by DJF
• Water Softeners maintenance, adjustment, and water softener effect on drinking water and on septic systems


• Septic Systems, Links List: Septic Inspection, Repair, Design, Design Alternatives, Products, Services
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