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oince the wastewater detention time in a septic tank is a minimum of 48 hours, a three-bedroom home would have at least a 900-gallon septic tank.

Most residential septic tanks hold 1,000 or 1,500 gallons.

When a toilet is flushed or a shower taken or a load of laundry done, wastewater makes its way to a main line and then to the septic tank.

There it cascades in and separates into three layers: a floating scum made up of light solids such as fats, grease, oils, lint; then heavy solids, which sink to the bottom, and finally liquids, called effluent, in the middle.

How about the stench?

Where does all the bad odor go?

Drains and toilets have water-filled traps, cleansed

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