The septic system was once hailed as the best way to handle household sewage. Of course, this was a time when municipal systems were very rare and most people used a cesspool for this purpose. Like the cesspool, a septic in Hawaii is a ground based, sewage filtration system. That is, the septic tank collects any sewage from the household drains and slowly fills up. As it does, the solid matter in the tank will settle and the liquid or effluent will rise. This allows the liquid waste to exit the tank via leech lines. Leech lines are a series of perforated pipes that allow water to slowly percolate into the ground.It may seem like the septic system will fill up too quickly, but there is an aerobic environment inside the tank that slowly consumes any proteins in the waste solids. This allows the rest of the solids to compact at the bottom of the tank.
Over time, this excess will fill the tank and require cleaning. Maintenance for Septic in Hawaii will usually fix this problem by vacuum pumping the waste out. Simply pumping out the tank should work for one or two cleanings before the tank and leech lines should be cleaned and checked.One problem that the septic system has is people forgetting about it and letting the tank fill up completely. At this point, the sewage will either escape around the lid or it will backup into the home. The latter can cause some serious repair issues, but the former isn’t much fun to deal with either. Once the sewage saturates the surrounding soil, it may need to be replaced. Small amounts should simply percolate into the soil. However, if the tanks has reached this point, the field lines are probably full of sewage as well.Surprisingly, the septic system is actually very simple to deal with.
It only requires the occasional cleaning, provided the tank can meet the demands of the home. This is done by estimating the amount of sewage that a home that size should produce. To make some systems work with larger dwellings, the contractor may install a dual tank system. The second tank is used to handle overflow before it reaches the leech lines. A more modern option is filtration systems that spray the effluent over a larger field and in a much more even pattern than using leech lines can.
