How much of nutrients lost in a septic system?

GoldenCityMuse · #21 06/08/13, 08:00 PM

The weeds grow thick, tall & green above my infiltrator line area!

I am adding a little bit of ammonia to one of my future garden sections. Depends on how much good well water I intake.

Paquebot · #22 06/09/13, 12:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Old Vet

All the data on what is in the poop bucket is worthless unless you realize that what you have is waste. The human body uses all the nutrients it can but you always have waste. Just because it is waste doesn't mean that it could not be used for fertilizer for plants.

All animals are reasonably efficient at removing the NPK of their food except that there's a lot more of it than they need. (In theory, we could devise a diet of only pills containing all of the minimum requirements and live a long life without a bowel movement.) Those which forage on grass easily get all that they need without working very hard. Grass may contain 1.0% nitrogen but the animal may need less than a quarter of that. The result is that the waste product may be .8% nitrogen. Same is true with the P and K part of the food no matter if human or other animals.

Martin