Hard water - need advice

[Addicting]

That's interesting. Not to disagree but I've never seen that before. Our softener system, several softeners and multiple water heaters, have been on septic for 20 years. It's a 2000 gallon tank and 600 feet of Infiltrator septic. Adding to that our soil is very clay like. It sounds like the leach field was undersized. An Infiltrator system adds %30 to a rock and pipe system.

I think it may be undersized, but meets the requirements of the county. I don’t think the previous owners did any maintenance and it didn’t have a filter. So some of the fines leached into the wells causing that black muck. I would say that is what plugged the bottom up but the grey sand completely encapsulated the whole system.

Now, it has an inline filter that we clean every couple years. Hopefully that along with monitoring the amount of salt we use will get us through our time there.

 

[Sheltowee]

Illegal to do where I live. Yeah, it's an incredibly stupid regulation

Can collect rainwater for outdoor use but, as you point out, is prohibited for drinking water or indoor household uses. CRS 37-96.5-103.

 

[Bonasababy]

Wouldn't too much salt partially settle out in a holding tank? And if it's dissolved, move just fine through the lines and into and out of the drainfield?

Never heard of that issue. Wonder if the substrate around the drainfield was not ideal....clay in the soil?

Thankfully we are on sand, and the new codes went overboard--three tank system then gets pumped uphill to the drainfield which is really big. Planted shorter rooted prairie stuff over all of it to keep tree roots out. Even with just the two of us though it looks like we need to pump it out every couple of years--was hoping it would last longer than that. Found a bad flapper in a downstairs toilet which was sending a lot more water down it for some months so wondering if fixing that might ease things.

 

[DentEater]

Rough. My buddy got a boil water notice. Have you tried any filters at all?