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THE PIRANA SOLUTION
solves the problem of biomat clogging simply, easily and inexpensively,
without the need for machinery or equipment, and little or no landscape
damage.
The Pirana is not mysterious or difficult to
understand. The problem is that the bacteria in our bodily wastes don't
die when they end up in a septic tank. They then leave the septic tank
in the liquid leaving the tank and end up in the disposal field. They
don't die there either. The real issue is often mentioned in today's
headlines; the introduction by man's activity of "alien or foreign" Non
Indigenous Species (N.I.S) into new environments and ecosystems. Water
Hyacinth, Zebra Mussels, Fire Ants, Starlings, Gypsy Moths to name a
few. Each N.I.S. that establishes a foothold in its new environment has
one common effect. They overwhelm existing species in their new
environment because there are no biological controls on their
population. Nothing living eats, kills, or inhibits their reproduction
or spread. This is exactly the problem with intestinal bacteria in the
disposal field.
Once a N.I.S. establishes itself in a
new environment, it is too expensive to use chemicals, traps or filters
to remove them. Unless a biological control can be found, something to
eat or inhibit the N.I.S., there is nothing truly affordable that
humans can do to stop their spread. The intestinal bacteria in the
disposal field are in fact a N.I.S. The community of soil microbes
never encountered the man made environment of a disposal field, or the
intestinal bacteria arriving there on a daily basis. The result is the
microbial soil community cannot compete with them. The ever increasing
numbers of intestinal bacteria invade and clog hundreds of cubic feet
of soil in and around the disposal field until the hydraulic
capabilities of the soil is of the disposal field is so impaired that
liquid can't leave the septic system as fast as it is put into it. The
Pirana solves the problem of the intestinal bacteria being a N.I.S. by
providing a simple, robust biological control.
The Pirana is a simple device and is simple to install. The Pirana
unit merely sets on the bottom of your septic tank accessed through a
riser and connected to a remote 40 watt air pump in a water proof basin
or housing using ½ inch PVC pipe. Add the patent pending Pirana Blend
"bacteria stick", connect the air pump to an electrical supply and turn
it on. That's it. One annual inspection a year is normally all that is
required. See the Certified Pirana Installer for a Maintenance
Agreement.
The patented Pirana and Pirana Method is
essentially an aerobic incubator to grow a few common species of
aerobic leaf litter bacteria, using the organic waste in your septic
tank as their food. These bacteria are found every where around the
world. They are "facultative anaerobically". "Facultative" in this
definition means they are aerobic bacteria that can change their
metabolism when removed from an environment containing atmospheric
oxygen, to a metabolism that allows them to survive for four or five
days without oxygen by scavenging (removing or reducing) the oxygen
they need from oxygenated molecules (with oxygen atoms). Biomat is a
highly oxygenated molecule. The Pirana Blend bacteria multiply, leave
the Pirana unit and become suspended in the liquid effluent and leave
the septic tank entrained in the effluent and travel to the disposal
field.
In the disposal field, the Pirana Blend bacteria
reduce the oxygen atoms from the biomat molecule, break up the slime,
reduce its viscosity and restore the soil's ability to absorb liquid.
Equally important, the biomat is the matrix in which the intestinal
bacteria live. Without the biomat, the intestinal bacteria can't
survive in the disposal field. The Pirana is a simple biological
control for the intestinal bacteria (N.I.S.) in disposal field soils.
As long as the Pirana is operated and maintained in the septic tank,
disposal fields cannot fail from Biomat clogging. The problem is
biological. The solution is biological.