I have septic tanks. My toilet flushing water is filthy and the water pump runs for a long time and sounds strange. I have turned the pump off for now but know this is not an answer but i was worried it would burn out or something. Do i need a part for the pressure pump? Please help any plumbers out there.
When you go to the hardware or home improvement store, whichever you have around your area, ask for a CLOSET AUGER. No home should be without one. Once you use it you'll wonder why you ever bothered with a plunger. This thing is made specifically for toilets and is simple to use and unclogs anything within and slightly below the floor line. Any clerk at either a hardware store or the home improvement stores should be able to show you how to use it and it costs about $10.
Marilyn, Your problem is that your main sewer line that runs from your house to you septic tank is blocked up somewhere not running. That is why you have really dirty water in your toilet AND the fact that your sewer ejector pump will not shut off. What will take care of your problem is that you need to get a good, local, competent, reputable sewer drain service to come over and snake your sewer line from your house, out towards you septic tank. That will fix your problem. Good luck.
Most toilets do not have pumps, Yours probably has a fluid master acting like a float , so water can only get so high in the tank, and a flapper - a rubber piece with a chain connecting to a handle rod. Remove the tank lid, see if the flapper goes up and down with the handle( the piece you push), this rubber piece should cover the hole completely to stop the water from going down any more. If it does not go down all the way, then it is the problem. Hope this helps.
Oh, groan ...up at 5:30 in the morning with water problems! Well. I guess it makes life 'interesting! ...lol Your well is running dry. - It is what I suspect. - Had the same problem, long ago. First of all ...you don't have septic tank(s). - You have only (1) septic tank. You can't let your water pump run-on like that. - It will overheat and burn out. My water pump was $700.00 dollars! I'm suspecting your water recovery rate in your well is very slow. - Time of year 'possibly'. - Or your well was just not dug deep enough in the first place, to have much reserve water capacity. What looks like dirty water, is probably really actually only sand and silt, that your water pump is sucking up, when your well runs close to dry. There's a free remedy. Squeeze a clamp onto the rubber washing machine water hose. - To restrict the rapid flow of water into your washing machine. If you're watering your garden ...don't water for too long. - Or the well will run dry. I put a water timer on my garden hose, so it only watered my garden for 5 minutes, every half hour. Leaving it that way 'all night' and you'll wake up to a well watered garden in the morning! I'm sure this is your problem, - low water recovery rate in your well - because that would account for the water turning silty. Be ingenuitive ...and it won't cost a penny, or inconvenience. Trini ps. The water that is pumped into your toilet, is well water. The septic tank is where the well water flushes the poo poo to. pps. You're right in turning the water pump off while you wait for the well water to recover!
I'm not sure why you only mention the water in your toilet. Alot of residential wells are just holes in the ground with 10 or 20 feet of casing. That is the large pipe in the ground that keeps the surface dirt from caving in. If the pump pipe- the one that the water comes out of the well in- has a hole in it down below the casing, then when the pump runs water sprays out onto the dirt in the well and is sucked up by the pump. Sometimes the dirt hole will collapse filling the well to a level close to the pump or even above. Dirt in well water should be checked out by a pump company soon. Your pump will wearout faster and if there is a chance of cleaning out the dirt it should be done right away.
