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RE: waste antifreeze

To: nase@ptd.net, 'Doug Braun' <doug@dougbraun.com>, Shop-Talk List
Subject: RE: waste antifreeze
From: Doug Braun <doug@dougbraun.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 10:27:27 -0800 (PST)
The reason it is sometimes possible to pour
antifreeze down the drain (once upon a
time, maybe) is that a properly-designed sewage
treatment plant will decompose it.  But I wouldn't
put it into a septic tank!

Doug

--- Phil Nase <nase@ptd.net> wrote:

> Thanks Doug.  I didn't know that.  I'll see if I can
> find more info.  I use
> the poisonous type so I always felt that it
> shouldn't be allowed to enter
> the ground water.
> 
> I'm sensitive to this type of thing because we are a
> rural area and maintain
> our own wells for drinking water. 




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