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Can your pipe running into your sewer tank enter at a 45 degree angle?

Can the pipe running from your home into your sewer tank enter it at a 45 degree angle so that your tank is sitting at an angle, and then leave to your leach field at another 45 degree angle, so that in the process you actually make a 90 degree turn?

http://www.co.el-dorado.ca.us/emd/envhealth/homeowner_septic.html

No,

Leach fields are designed specifically with soil percolation rates and solid waste storage and removal/breakdown rates in mind.

Septic tanks are SPECIFICALLY constructed of concrete, bricks, clay, or fiberglass and etc and are meant to hold the scum in. Baffles are placed within the tank to improve solids settling and prevent the scum layer of lightweight solids, fats and greases from floating out of the tank with the effluent into the leach field.

Effluent from the septic tank flows by gravity or is pumped to a leach field for disposal. The wastewater effluent is absorbed by soil particles and moves both horizontally and vertically through the soil pores.

To do what you propose would let the scum layer out into the leach field. It would then severely handicap the system, and how it's supposed to work, and cause far more problems than it is EVER worth.

The first 10 feet of top soil and upper soil are the key to the whole system working right. You cannot take that away.

I've installed over 100 of these systems.

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