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The solution to restoring your septic system is simple; reduce or remove the biomat clogging of the soil pores.

The only long term way to accomplish this is to change the bacteria community in the septic tank, dramatically reduce or remove the organic material leaving the septic tank and inoculate bacteria into the effluent leaving the septic tank that will consume the biomat.

The problem is biological, the solution is biological.

To understand how Septic Genie works, you need to understand a little about the bacteria in a septic system. Remember, bacteria do the work of digesting and treating our waste. There are two distinct groups of bacteria, anaerobes that do not use oxygen for energy and aerobes that use oxygen for energy.

There is third group of bacteria that are a bit of both. They are called facultative bacteria. Facultative bacteria can be either anaerobic bacteria that can temporarily change their metabolism to an aerobe (facultative aerobes) or an aerobe that can temporarily change their metabolism to an anaerobe (facultative anaerobes).

You most frequently find facultative aerobes in the intestines of animals with guts. You most frequently find facultative anaerobes in forest leaf litter, humic soils and composting vegetation.

It is the facultative anaerobic bacteria that are important. It is well known by the septic industry that facultative anaerobes will break down the biomat slime and consume solids when deprived of oxygen. A disposal field full of slime and solids has no oxygen. The problem was how to get them into a septic system cheaply and efficiently.

That is where the patented ABG technology of the Septic Genie saved the day. Septic Genie grows them in your septic tank using your organic solids as food. They digest your waste for food thereby removing it from the system; they increase their numbers and leave the septic tank entrained in every cup full of effluent and travel to your drain field.

In the drain field they migrate into the soil, quickly break down the biomat and restore the drain field to full function. With a properly operating Septic Genie in your septic tank your drain field can’t fail again from biomat clogging of the soil.

The introduction of sodium into septic systems is known to clog soils.

Anaerobic conventional septic systems have been historically treated as a dumping ground for any type of waste liquid.  This is now fast becoming a problem for the industry.  Basically putting anything into a septic tank that you wouldn’t first put into your mouth, or anything that is fundamentally toxic to bacteria should not be put into a septic tanks.

Obviously, as a culture, we won’t follow that exact rule.  Reasonable amounts of the normal products we use in our homes can go into a septic tank.  The real problem still remains Biomat clogging of soils around drain fields.

The back wash from water softeners is loaded with sodium as rock salt is the medium used for ionic exchange that binds up minerals with the salt.  This sodium in the back wash will stratify in the soils around the leach lines and slow down the movement of liquid through it.

Eventually, with biomat and other organic compounds that infiltrate the soil pores, failure is the outcome.  As failure is designed into and expected for these anaerobic systems within a couple of decades, excessive amounts of any of the materials described merely decreases the time period to failure.

You should try and discharge the back wash to another place and leave the septic system to handle your biological waste from the home.

Installing a separate small drain field to handle the back wash is easy and shouldn’t be expensive.