Can I get sick or a disease from eating apples off a tree planted above a septic field/tank?

Answer 1

Virtually impossible! Any pathogenic bacteria/viruses present in the sewage and not destroyed by fermentation in the septic tank are likely to be destroyed by soil organisms even if they leak out. Then the apple tree roots only take up inorganic materials, the cell walls being designed to exclude foreign cells. Then, even if infected, the plant tissues continue to battle any foreign organisms throughout the tree into the fruit, by which time there will be nothing there that your immune system cannot handle unless a duck infected with bird flu has crapped on your apple. Problem arises if high levels of toxic metals like mercury, cadmium etc are in your tank, and it leaks, but even this is unlikely unless your tank is serving a large industrial town, which , I assume, it ain't..

Answer 2

absolutely not! Most people would be surprised to know that they play and grow gardens on their septic tanks everyday. It's right next to your home and will not contaminate plants. It will actually probably make the plant healthier and stronger (natural fertilizer) It's just like the apples from the orchard fertilized with manure and composts. Probably better for you than all of the other process and mechanically separated foods on the market. If your septic ever goes bad, the tree may have to go if it's right on top of the tank, or the roots damaging the tank, but thats about your only worry...Happy eating!

Answer 3

No, the tree acts as a natural filter. It takes the nutrients from the soil along with the air and light that it requires to live and produce the fruit. The septic tank proximity just means a good source of fertilizer.

Answer 4

long island is prevalent as "the large apple" because till now a renowned human beings hero (Johnny Appleseed) planted a unmarried seed contained in the midst of the city. Then, in an easy warp in area-time, a boy named Jack planted a seed he believed to be magical interior an same spot. In what remains considered a marveling organic and organic progression, both seeds fused at the same time on a molecular aspect. After an remarkable rain, the seed hybrid grew into an apple 300ft tall and approximatively 330ft huge. The strangest component being the absence of a tree. it type of feels the apple became thoroughly typical, except it grew instantly from the floor with its own roots like a beanstalk of a few type. for some destiny years, human beings would visit the city and seem up on the not accessible fruit and picture "it really is a significant apple". After a lengthy time period human beings began pertaining to the city itself as "the large apple". yet then, 1943 Oct eleventh, something unusual befell. because the city laid to relax, the evening once back upon them, there became a astonishing flash of pink mild. The flash lasted for almost 4-5 seconds. no one is for particular what led to the flash, yet as quickly because it became over the apple had in basic terms disappeared. not in basic terms had it vanished, the floor it had grown from had closed as if it weren't in any respect there. some say the apple had grown so large it created some type of fruity supernova and collapsed in on itself in a black hollow. some say the extraterrestrial beings to blame for the lack of existence of the dinosaurs got here decrease back and destroyed the apple besides. We would not in any respect comprehend precisely what befell that evening, yet one component is for particular. That became a huge-*** apple.

Answer 5

Aside from the soil actually TOUCHING the apple, the resulting product will not have any of the bacterium within it, as animal and plant bacterium are not universal.

I'd still wash it.
;-)

Answer 6

The possibilities are "YES". The livers could be affected. You may get rashes. It may be indigestion. Wait for something to develop within 7 days of eating such apples. If nothing happens, you are safe.

Answer 7

Not if you pull them off the tree. But, if they fall off and lay on the ground, all bets are off ☺

But it's usually a good idea to wash things, even fresh ones, before you eat them. Even racoons know that ☺


Doug

Answer 8

If you wash it or make sure it doesn't have a worm inside it! Try picking them before they fall.

Answer 9

sounds pretty gross, I would call your local health department to make sure.

Answer 10

not from that.