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The valve SHOULD be cracked slightly. It allows part of the water to go back into the pump chamber to circulate the water. Some companies also use it to adjust line pressures.

On MOST aerobic septic systems ALL water from house goes into the same chamber.

That is way too much. The plastic dripper at the bottom is worn out. Just need to replace that.

You could have a leak in the air line between the air pump and the air diffuser, there not getting the air needed for the aerobic reaction. Soils with a lot of clay swell and contract as the get wet from rain and dry out. This can pull connections a part underground. Walk the areas where you think the line runs and listen for a hissing sound. I just stumbled on this hissing sound in my backyard, dug it up to find this. Got to thinking my sprinkler discharge has been smelling bad for a while....hope this helps!

What is the difference between the discharging and the leaching? Is the sprinkler system the discharging?

@@amandabruesch8247 an on-lot system, AKA non-discharging, uses the soil as the means of secondary treatment. A discharging system discharges the effluent to a road ditch, culvert, storm sewer, lake, etc. Obviously, if you are discharging to the state, you need an NPDES permit through the EPA. A sprinkler system, AKA spray, is a hybrid type system. It utilizes aeration/UV and a lift pump to feed the sprinkler. It would be classified as a hybrid, but more-so an on-lot system. If most of the effluent stays on the property(which it should) and is absorbed into the soil, it is a non-discharging system. The type of system is classified by its final treatment component.

@@Jfresh55 thank you. I have the hybrid then. I just bought this place out in the country so I'm very excited to learn how to take care of my new patch of earth. Thank you again!

If your system is working correctly and has the proper amount of air from the air pump being injected you will not need the chlorine. I plumbed a 0-10 psi gauge in right below my air pump micro switch. They have to maintain 1 psi or the alarm will go off. Normally they run 2 psi or just above. If it starts getting up near 3 psi I change my diffuser as it is usually getting clogged and it goes back to around 2 1/4 lbs. And, if one of the diaphragms is cracked in one end of the air pump it will drop below 1 psi but still run and put out some air, but not enough. The gauge makes a great trouble shooting tool.

I also made me an emergency pump from a 1/2 hp 120 volt submersible pump that I had. Plumbed a 1 1/4 inch stand pipe so it is off the bottom of the tank the top is teed with two pieces about 2 ft long. It will hang from the manhole riser. One of them is capped and the other one is open. I have an electric line made from the male end of a heavy extension cord zip tied to the stand pipe and coming out where i can plug it into a heavy extension cord. I slip about 3 twenty foot joints of 1 1/4 inch pvc pipe on to the open side of the tee and plug it in. It will empty the tank in a few minutes. Comes in real handy when your pump or pump switch goes out and the tank is extra full and need to work on it.

Of course they keep people fearful to make money..

Prob because the leach field isn't working. When the leach field becomes water logged, it creates fractures in the soil and essentially discharges into a body of water or will surface on the ground. The tank can last long but the leach field can't.

Can you please make a video of your parents system? And keep the comments ON. People learn from the video, but also from comments.

You are right about county leeches having to step into the rural folks lives and take money, time, and hassle by forcing folks to have these systems. It's nothing but a racket. What might have started out as solving a problem( getting rid of human waste) only morphs into crooked sewer system companies that gouge folks for this service and the items that need repairing.

We get people all the time saying they haven’t pumped their system and never had a problem. But when they do finally have that problem it’s typically 100 percent failed with no options to repair requiring a whole new system. Where as if they would have maintained it it would have been fine or partly salvageable

At 1:48 you can see the clutch pedal.

Gold Hunter this is correct. I’ve had that problem before! I use a manual trapdoor string operated.

The diffuser is in the clarifier tank. The sewage flows first into the black tank, then the clarifier tank, and finally the discharge tank. You'll see a PVC union in your clarifier tank with a PVC air line that drops down into the tank. Turn off power. Remove the union and lift out the PVC air line. At the end of the PVC air line (there may also be a flexible hose) you will see the diffuser. Unscrew the diffuser, screw on a new one, and drop the assembly back into the tank and reattach the union.

Yeah, why was that tank lid buried when you need to replace the diffuser every few years? Also I want to ask -- how high should the diffuser be above the bottom of the tank?

I second the question about the depth level of the diffuser question from a year ago that was never answered.

The chlorine is added after the whole treatment process. It is only added to the pump tank to disinfect the water before it is pumped out of the system. It never comes in contact with the bacteria growing part of the system.

Michael M chlorine breaks down the whole system just a way to keep charging you for service calls FYI

Michael M leach field

Steven Gaylord I can confirm this. The wastewater business in Texas is all about $$$$$

@@pattyleabo426 I kept noticing the way he said, when the system alarms we have to come out.