Simple answer…Spring or Summer!
The earlier you can get started the better…with the warmer weather over spring and summer the liquid temperature in your septic tank is higher than in the fall and winter and our septic bacteria do a much better job.
Ideally, the bacteria would like the temperature in your septic tank to be 80 to 85 degrees to work at their best…however this isn’t likely to happen in your septic tank…unless you heat it!
As the liquid temperature in your septic tank drops the septic bacteria’s performance diminishes; they still work at digesting organic waste, but not with the same efficiency. The lower the temperature of the liquid the less effective they are. Hence over the fall and winter the bacteria are less effective than in the spring and summer.
Therefore I like to get really aggressive with treatment over the summer in order to unclog the drain field and get liquid flowing through it again before fall and winter set in.
You could say septic bacteria are like you and I; we both prefer warmer temperatures!
