Septic Tank Bacteria and your Septic Tank.

      Not many people know why septic tank bacteria is important and needed in your septic tank and thru out your septic system. They just know they do need it. Septic Tank Bacteria is the "Life Blood" of any septic tank system. Without it, you have a failed and dead system that will need major work to bring it back, and major work is not cheap.


     What does my Septic Tank do?

     Your septic tank is part of a septic system. A septic tank is a place that human waste enters to get broken down by septic tank bacteria. Your septic tank is a giant living filter. This living filter over time will break down human waste. This is where mother nature does her magic but without septic tank bacteria, mother nature is not happy. If mother nature is not happy, your septic system dies.

     How does septic tank bacteria get into my septic tank?

     Septic tank bacteria enters your septic tank in a few ways. One of them is thur human waste. If you are on any medications, have a unhealthy diet, use bleach, anti septic mouth wash, disinfecting cleaners etc, your septic tank will need extra help from adding a septic tank bacteria.

     How can I add septic tank bacteria into my septic tank?

     It can be as easy as flushing your toilet! Most septic tank bacteria are either liquid or a dry powder product. Both in little amounts and flushing the toilet, can be added. There is a gel product that gets installed into your septic tank that "Melts" septic tank bacteria into your system over a month's time.

     How do I know if I need any? 

     If your septic pumper has to work hard and hand you a big bill for hours of cleaning up a septic tank, it sounds like you can use extra septic tank bacteria. Another way is to safely inspect your septic tank yourself. This will only work if your septic tank is raised to grade and you can guarantee your own safety and remove a septic tank inspection port and look down. If you see anything floating, you need more septic tank bacteria. The next way is to look for your septic tank system puddling up in the drain field or leach field area.


     Please remember, a proper working septic and drain field or leach field is great for the environment !

For more information on septic tank bacteria, please go to:
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Do you want somebody to drown in your Homemade Block Cesspool?

There is a ticking time bomb on well over a thousand properties in Suffolk County NY. They are called Block Cesspools. A Block Cesspool is a homemade Cesspool that used either Cesspool Blocks or just regular lite duty Cinder Blocks. The Blocks are arranged in a circle and one block placed ontop of another, and 99 % of the time, no Cement was ever used. The only thing holding them together is the soil around them and nothing else. Now when you just add waste water, the Blocks start to rot and soften up. This makes the ground around them unstable and the just let gravity take it's natural course and cave in, Taking anything around them with it. Many people have died in them.

If your home was built before 1975, you should have some sort of a homemade block cesspool on your property, that will cave in. It's just a matter of time.


What is a homeowner to do?
The best thing a homeowner can do is call us and have us locate all cesspools on the property to check for homemade block cesspools. If you have them , They must be caved in to make them safe. If you do not do this and somebody gets hurt or dies in a block cesspool, you will be held responsible.

Why take that chance?


There is no safe block homemade cesspools.

Call Ranger Sewer and make a appointment and we can come out and inspect your system to see if it is safe for your family to be around.

Basic Cesspool, Septic Tank,Leachfield type systems, In the Huntington, Huntington Bay, Lloyd Harbor, Dix Hills, Northport and Eaton's Neck area.

    
    Basic Cesspool, Septic Tank,Leachfield, Sewer and Advanced Treatment  systems In the Huntington, Huntington Bay, Lloyd Harbor, Dix Hills, Northport and Eaton's Neck area.


      In the Lloyd Harbor Huntington Bay area, we have come across very different types of waste water Sanitary systems.
Dangerous homemade block cesspools are still all over Lloyd Harbor. Any sinking in a yard must be investigated before somebody could possible die from it caving in.
     You can also find homemade block cesspools and a newer pre cast cesspool hooked into it. You find this when the home needed a bigger system and for some strange reason did not want a Septic Tank installed and chose a low quality of a install and went the new pre cast cesspool, and they almost always seem to be small. This is also a sign of a uneducated installer or a homeowner not concerned at all with the Environment.

      Next is 2 pre cast cesspools installed . This is also a very uneducated move by the installer and the homeowner.   There is no "Filter" to clean up the waste from the home before it goes into a cesspool. This right away starts the first cesspool failing. You can not introduce raw untreated waste in direct contact with the ground and expect the system to be environmentally friendly and last 5 years. I do not care wht the uneducated installer said about having only 2 cesspools and no septic tank installed, IT IS NOT ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY AND IT WILL FAIL AND REQUIRE MORE EXPENSIVE SERVICE TO MAINTAIN! ( The uneducated non environmentally friendly installer will not let you know this !)

     Best code approved set up to have installed is a septic tank and cesspool that has 3 rings deep and a dome, all covers raised to just 1 foot below grade and inspection ports, and a septic tank filter installed.  This property sized to your home system will cost ways less to "Operate" in the short and long term. If you need a larger septic system, You can just add another 3 rings and a dome off the cesspool.


     Keep in mind, and deep main waste line leaving your home will require a round septic tank, and all wastewater require a inspection from your local town code plumbing and wastewater inspector. We will set that all up for you. Every septic system we install in the Huntington, Huntington Bay, Lloyd Harbor, Dix Hills, Northport, East Northport, Eaton's Neck and Suffolk county area get inspected by somebody in the town,. This insures that YOU the homeowner got a great town approved septic system installed and that we have nothing to hide from the inspectors. We even work with the South West Sewer district when we come across a old block cesspool that caved in. The Town Inspectors and South West Sewer district are the home owners friend, and a pleasure for us to work with them.

     We have come across septic tanks and leach fields in the Huntington, Huntington Bay, Lloyd Harbor and Eaton's Neck area. We service them too and bring the Leach field back to life. Leach fields where installed when there is groundwater 10 feet or closer depth. This is a old system but a very clean running environmentally friendly system. So environmentally friendly we still install them using what we call a Cultec chamber System. We have installed a Cultec Chamber System in area where no septic system would work, and this would!

     Next popular system in the area is a Advanced Treatment System. A Advanced Treatment System is installed in a septic tank and helps mother nature break down your wastewater down to a almost pure water state. This then goes into your cesspool or drain field to be filter even more and then into the ground. This is very Environmentally Friendly set up and we feel this is the BEST way of dealing with all septic household wastewater. This also keeps your property from becoming a landfill and a new site for a Haz Mat clean up. This system costs the least in the long run when sized to your home.

    

     Give Ranger Sewer a call at 631-368-0901 for your next Septic Tank System install, Service or Inspection.

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Ranger Sewer has been servicing the Huntington, Huntington Bay, Lloyd Harbor,Dix Hills, Eaton's Neck area along with the septic, cesspool and drain cleaning needs of all of Suffolk county NY for 25 plus years.