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Originally Posted by metoo21
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.
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.
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Piping it to the curb would require you to install underground pipe through the street right-of-way because you don't own the property all the way to the curb. You woud need permission from the county (or whoever owns the right-of-way) and I doubt that they would give it. Also, you would be discharging contaminated water into the street, which could be consumed by pets.