mongoose33
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I'm hoping and anticipating at some point I can build a house out of town limits where there is no water/sewer service. Well and septic system is what I want.
I clean brass using a rock tumbler w/ stainless steel pins, hot water, Dawn dishwashing liquid, and occasionally Lemi-Shine. Brass looks new coming out, inside and out. However, that dirt is transferred to the water and if you've never seen the water coming out, it's absolutely black with dirt.
Question: If I were to dump that water down a sink connected to a septic system, what's the consequence? What's exactly in that water? I have a sink in my garage and it goes down the drain into the sewer system, but what would it do to the septic system? Or am I potentially putting poisons into the leaching system which eventually works into the groundwater?
There are, I suppose, ways around this. I could collect the dirty water and store it in a barrel, evaporate it away in the summer. There are other ways.
Anyway, what's in that dirty water? If it's just carbon, no big deal. If there is a lot of other stuff....
I clean brass using a rock tumbler w/ stainless steel pins, hot water, Dawn dishwashing liquid, and occasionally Lemi-Shine. Brass looks new coming out, inside and out. However, that dirt is transferred to the water and if you've never seen the water coming out, it's absolutely black with dirt.
Question: If I were to dump that water down a sink connected to a septic system, what's the consequence? What's exactly in that water? I have a sink in my garage and it goes down the drain into the sewer system, but what would it do to the septic system? Or am I potentially putting poisons into the leaching system which eventually works into the groundwater?
There are, I suppose, ways around this. I could collect the dirty water and store it in a barrel, evaporate it away in the summer. There are other ways.
Anyway, what's in that dirty water? If it's just carbon, no big deal. If there is a lot of other stuff....