Charlie: “Coplin in Huffman writes to us. She says, “I have an aerobic septic system. Is the saltwater that I use to flush the resin beads,” I assume she’s talking about in her water softener, “detrimental to the septic system?” Some say yes, some say no, what say you?
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Tom: “I say no. Some say yes, some say no, I say no. There’s been a lot of studies done, and if you put enough in there, and if your systems not working properly, like anything, you could dump anything down the drain and if you do too much of it’s going to hurt a system like that, but that system’s pretty foolproof. The bottom line is, if you do it right, it’ll be fine.
Charlie: “Well, that’s true of so many things.
Tom: “It’s true.
Charlie: “Well, you don’t want to just dump five bags of salt down in there, but you what I mean.
Tom: “That might … Yeah, that would definitely-
Charlie: “But a little bit at a time, when it regenerates if you have a good system, it’ll be fine.
Tom: “All right.