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That is good advice to ask the local Andy and our health authorities about the situation. Your case unless that's been in the last one very recent it was not DNR that's going to be a local Authority that cause you your headache am I blinded on DNR does that is simply not true to my last classes unless something on it failed you were unaware of
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Don't know about a lagoon but out here we have cesspools.

The larger the better.

When we moved here we had a company drill 3 40 ft.holes and hook them in series.

We lived there for 22 years and had to have them pumped once.

Some soaps are not your friend.

After the last time the washing machine was plumed out to the north of the house.
made things better.

The hole sides soak water and the solids sink to the bottom.
When that hole is full the water goes to the next and so on.

I would think that a lagoon would work if the solids are trapped before they drain in.

Be careful about what cleaners you use when cleaning the house.

Slightly off topic, but many years ago one of my dads neighbors installed a septic tank for a person who had just moved to the area. Later that summer the sewage started backing up in his back yard and he asked him to make it good.
He refused for some reason and he had another guy look it over and if I remember correctly he used the wrong kind of pipe and it deteriated quickly. He took it to court and sued him for the price of repair and won.

The neighbors around me all have lagoons. New buildings require it. I'm grandfathered, so I can just run poop pipe out the back and let it flow out onto the hillside. I hope building an addition won't screw that up.

First big problem is smell. The big hillbilly bar over on the next ridge had one on the other side of the parking lot. You could tell what the whole county had been eating when the wind was right.

The other thing is neighbor kids. The cretinous neighbors let their kids play in their lagoons. The kids thought it was a great place to hunt frogs. Yikes.

DEQ are the last people I'd want snooping around.

You need more information to clarify exactly what is there.

The term "septic lagoon" doesn't make sense and is likely some kind of bastardization of correct terms. Lagoons are not septic.

It is probably either a septic tank that drains into a lagoon/evaporation pond OR a sewage lagoon without a septic tank.

And yes, sewage lagoons without septic tanks can work if legal in your area and built properly. But until you find out what is actually there all this speculation is worthless.

You can schitt in the yard without going outside.

That's worth something.

A cesspool is nothing more than a puddle with a cover. Your puddle is open air.



Family's been in the business since 1946... never heard of such a thing for a home. (we don't have leaching fields either)
Of course we're thousands of miles away from Idaho.

Plainsman has it right. Bigger the better. Keep it fenced.

Had a lagoon when I lived Missouri..... very little odor.... almost none.....big enough and clean enough that the frogs liked it and kept the bugs in check.

Never had a problem with the lagoon.

I'm sure if you made plenty of calls and tried hard enough you could find some dill weed at some government agency that would object to what you had in your backyard.

The replies in this thread reveal that many don't have a clue that everyone doesn't do everything exactly as they do.

Septic tank/leach field, septic tank/septic pond, holding pond/septic pond, all three systems do exactly the same thing, one just as well as the other they are just different in appearance.

terms pond, lagoon, cesspool all = same thing.

It's just harder to fish in a septic tank and you can't go ice skating in the winter on your leach field.....

Someone else spared me any further concern over the matter. The owners accepted an offer from someone so the property is off the market. Funny thing. My wife and I decided last night to pass on the property. Then this morning we got word it was off the market.

A pond full of turd in your yard. Someone did you a favor by buying the place in my opinion.

....and kitchen sink. We had the same setup where I grew up.