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Originally Posted by unclebilly

I don’t know why you would want to do this.

If your septic system giving issues? Is it at the end of its life?

First of all, the water in a septic field should never go down. It goes up, that’s the purpose of the field, it pushes that water up and it evaporates or waters the grass. If the water goes down, it’s contaminating your water table.

I think it’s a good thing to have more than poop and pee go into your septic system. This allows the system to run at lower capacity as the poop and pee concentration is a lot lower, maybe 5-10% whereas what you propose would make it closer to 50%. No system is designed for this.

The problem is that the missus would like to be able to take a bath with stuff in it (oils, salts, whatever) and those things are not healthy for septic systems. So the initial thought is "route the bathwater away from the septic." That would leave the sink and dishwasher and toilets.