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Originally Posted by unclebilly

Like was mentioned above about the dead raccoon, my dad told me that they used to throw a chicken into the septic tank to initiate the bacteria bloom. My father has done a lot of things and one of them was being a licensed septic field installer when he did his land development. His license number was #50 for the province of Alberta.

When we built our house, dad put in a temporary system for us until I designed and built our field... it worked for 2 years until we installed the proper field.

It's fascinating to hear of multiple references to dead bodies.

Originally Posted by fintstone

Unless you are putting a lot of really harsh chemicals into the system, you probably have plenty of crap growing in your septic tank. I don't put anything in any of mine...and there is no problem.

Right, absolutely not. We'll be careful about what goes down the drain.