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Old 06-04-2025, 03:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Battlebasset View Post
If the discharge from the WS was piped out the side wall of my garage, it would not be a long trip to discharge directly into my cleanout which is in the flower bed. Has anybody done this vs just letting it spill on the ground, or creating a drainage sump?
I'd say that is a bad idea. You'd probably have sewer gases backing up in your softener system. Pipe it to the curb? I wouldn't discharge it onto the driveway as sodium chloride will damage concrete over time. A drainage sump would need to very big as the system uses quite a lot of water during its cycling.


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Isn’t sodium bad for vascular system? Every one I even knew with high blood pressure was told to reduce sodium intake?
Yes it can be bad but there isn't a significant amount of sodium in the softened water to make a difference for someone - especially in the amount of water one would drink daily.