OK hunters. We are looking at doing a crude septic system at the lease. We have a 5th wheel trailer. Running water and electricity but need a system for black water disposal. Looking at burying a 55-gallon drum. Plan is to bury it a distance away from the camp, and making a small septic system.
Thinking of using PVC pipe to run from trailer and connect to drum. Drill several small holes in drum. Bury in hole, surround by gravel, then cover. Of course have a small exhaust pipe for the drum. The system will not get used that often.
Any suggestions or comments?
We just bury our purforated tubes right in the ground at a angle like a field line.
No problem with odor
Straight in the soil? No holding tank/drum? Lines not surrounded by gravel?
yep ;D
I would go with a dry well.
Google it but it's same thing you are describing: sinking a drum with 1/2" holes drilled into all over it and buried in a bed of drain rock.
Carolyn
A lot depends on what the soil is like. Her in SoCal, we have rocks surrounded with a little dirt. When I plant trees in my yard, I can fill the hole with water and it'll be there long enough to breed mosquitoes.
I would use a plastic drum.
If using a drum probably a good idea to run a couple perforated leach lines for water over flow.