Re: [alfa] RE: coolant disposal

[Richard Welty <rwelty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 17:36:04 -0500 Dean Mericas <dmericas@domain.elided> wrote:

> My biggest concern in discharging to a septic system would be the potential
> for shock loading.  A gallon of glycol has the oxygen demand equivalent to
> something like 5,000 gallons of domestic sewerage.  Can your septic field
> take that sort of load in one shot?  It's sort of like eating your own
> weight in Snickers bars at one setting......or maybe not.

er, yes, it's probably not overbuilt to that extent.

richard
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Richard Welty                                         rwelty@domain.elided
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