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Originally Posted by curtisfarmer
Someone mentioned leach fileds and lawns..... A BIG no no. Wheeled machines hauling dirt atop a leach field compacts the soil of the leach system and eventually eroding the lifespan of the system. The ground pressure from wheeled machines is too much for the porisity required for the designed system. ...
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My leach lines are buried at least 6' below the surface, if not more, because they are on an uphill grade from the septic tank, which is two feet below grade itself because it is slighly up hill from the house. I plan on dumping about 100 or 200 yards of muchroom compost on the field using a 5 yard dump truck this summer. Because of how deap the leach lines are, and the fact that we won't have had rain for 5 months by the time I do this, I think they will be fine. The soil will be like concrete by then.
BTW, the muchroom compost is free and just a 1 mile down the road. I'm hoping to get at least 4 runs per hour done.