WaterTechOnline.com reported that the Water Quality Association and National Onsite Wastewater Recycling Associaton, representing the point-of-use/point-of-entry water treatment industry and the onsite septic system industry, have agreed on a set of guidelines for consumers and others about the use of a water softener and an onsite septic system on the same property.
The two groups are also working together to launch research on the interactions of softeners and onsite septic systems which will examine how the saline discharge in a water softener’s regeneration cycle may affect the normal actions of septic tanks and other onsite septic components to digest and disperse sewage solids and wastewater.
The groups say that in the majority of cases where the two systems exist on the same property, there are no problems. “Yet there have been sporadic, mostly anecdotal reports of issues related to the use of both kinds of equipment at some sites,” the groups said in a joint statement.
The statement and guidelines were approved recently by the boards of directors of both WQA and NOWRA.
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