Melbourne’s Professional and Top-Rated Septic Tank Cleaning Services

Citywide Liquid Waste Management also provides services for septic tank pump outs. We have our very own trade waste agreement with City West Water that allows us to have a sewage disposal point located right here at our premises in Sunshine North. In addition to providing actual services for grease traps, lint traps, triple interceptors and wash bays Citywide liquid Waste Management also pump out septic tanks. Citywide Liquid Waste are available 7 days a week we can solve your septic tank problems, manage your septic tank cleaning and schedule a regular maintenance service of your septic tank. It is generally considered that your septic tank should be cleaned or desludged every three years to avoid costly repairs, blockages and replacements.

The most common cause of toilet blockage with a septic system is caused by the septic tank being over full. If this has happened to you please contact us urgently. If this hasn’t happened but you want to avoid it happening in the future you should also give us a call.

Prevention is always better than the cure.

Specifically, this is how a typical conventional septic system works:

  • All water runs out of your house from one main drainage pipe into a septic tank.
  • The septic tank is a buried, water-tight container usually made of concrete, fiberglass, or polyethylene. Its job is to hold the wastewater long enough to allow solids to settle down to the bottom forming sludge, while the oil and grease floats to the top as scum.
    Compartments and a T-shaped outlet prevent the sludge and scum from leaving the tank and traveling into the drainfield area.
  • The liquid wastewater (effluent) then exits the tank into the drainfield.
  • The drainfield is a shallow, covered, excavation made in unsaturated soil. Pretreated wastewater is discharged through piping onto porous surfaces that allow wastewater to filter though the soil. The soil accepts, treats, and disperses wastewater as it percolates through the soil, ultimately discharging to groundwater.
    If the drainfield is overloaded with too much liquid, it can flood, causing sewage to flow to the ground surface or create backups in toilets and sinks.
  • Finally, the wastewater percolates into the soil, naturally removing harmful coliform bacteria, viruses and nutrients. Coliform bacteria is a group of bacteria predominantly inhabiting the intestines of humans or other warm-blooded animals. It is an indicator of human fecal contamination.