Does anyone have any experience installing a 55 gallon drum as a septic tank?

Answer 1

Illegal in most parts, and not recommended. The drum will rot away, and the yard will cave in.

Answer 2

I know that you are living in a travel trailer and all but a 50 gallon drum is nothing in the way of water use. Septics have separate containers that do different things. I thought you were kidding at first. I'd say the reason she buried it is because it was illegal. I hope you don't have well water because you are drinking your own poo if you do.

Answer 3

55 gallons is way too tiny for a septic tank. It also lacks the dividing partition inside that a septic tank would have.

Answer 4

what are u dence, a fifty five gallon drum is much to small, the waste needs time to dissolve and a drum that small won't give it the time it needs even if you add a septic treatment, my advise is to get a larger tank, like 500 gallons

Answer 5

no when you bury it ,,it is still a 55 gallon drum,,,not a septic tank


unless you do it as gands4ever says,,,then it is still a 55 gallon drum

they tell me that being knowledgeable makes you a top contributor,,that is a crock

Answer 6

best would be a plastic drum, you could cut off the tops and join 2 of them together with some galvanized metal strips making it 110 gallons lay on its side level with your pipe going in one side from the house and attach 8 or 10 1/2 lines to the other end going down hill slightly to leach out the liquid waste slowly. no guarantee as to how long till you fill it with solid waste and it will need to be pumped out so cut a hole in the top and stick a pipe up threw it and make it tall enough to stick up out of the ground about a foot for easy access.

Answer 7

heard of it back in the day. didnt work then wont work know. no baffel, to small, and it rusts. It wont break down the solids so why not just plumb it strait in pipe. it will do the same thing but last longer.(I dont recomend that either)