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    Default Septic Query

    Hi all,

    just had a new septic installed and have a query. Immerdiately after the tank, the line splits into two separeate pipes that then go to two diverter boxes. These boxes then have two separate pipes running to 2 separate absorption trenches(4 trenches in total) The final backfilling of the pipe trenches is getting finished this week but I noticed today a lot of liquid running in a trench that carries the pipes from the diverter to the absorption trench.

    I tracked this back to the diverter boxes. Basically, the 3 x 100mm pipes that fit in to the boxes sit in oversize holes with about a 4-5mm gap around them. As fluid enters the box from the tank, it just flows out of this gap and not in to the pipe that runs to the absorption trench.

    Does anyone know if there is meant to be a seal of some sort on the box/pipe connection? It seems to me that without a seal, the waste water will never enter the piping for the absorption trench.

    TIA

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    Logic would say they should be sealed as the absorption treanch is where you want the waste water
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