How does a peat moss biofilter system work?
The main function of a septic system is to take all the wastewater (from showers, tubs, sinks, washroom and toilets) that comes out of the house, clean it and then send it back down into the ground’s water table. The first step is to store all the wastewater in a holding tank, also known as the septic tank. In the septic tank the heavy waste matter (sludge) settles to the bottom of the tank. This sludge should be pumped out every 3 years to prevent harmful build up and to prevent fewer sludge particles from escaping out to the zone of treatment. The graywater that sits on top of the sludge is what gets sent out to a filtering system (zone of treatment) before being disposed back down into the ground’s water table. It’s in the filtering system that the peat moss is technically superior to the conventional filter of layered sand and gravel. An enclosed module that is 4’ tall x 7’ wide x 10’ long of sphagnum peat moss receives all the effluent and as the effluent moves down through the pe
