[doggiebus]

SOunds like the landlord needs to come and look at it or get someone to look at it asap. You shouldn't have to deal with issue, its the landlords responsibility. I would check your lease to be sure as you never know as putting ridx every month down the pipes isn't usually part of a regular lease agreement...

[muggums]

We go through a property management company. It says in the lease that "tenant MUST purchase an enzyme eating product and flush down a functioning toilet once a month". Not necessary from what I've read, but whatever.

The landlord finally called back today and said it's not an emergency, the alarms on septics go off all the time, and go off in plenty of time to get them pumped... so no worries, we can just go on about our normal lives. Hope she's right.

[FL Developer]

Most likely your pump has failed (or plugged) allowing the liquid level in your dosing tank exceed the high level mark. A typical modern day septic system utilizes a septic tank, dosing tank, and a drain field. Wastewater gravity flows into the septic tank for treatment and then into the dosing tank where it is then pumped to the drain field because it is higher than the water elevations in the tanks. Is your drain field "mounded" in your yard?

[muggums]

Nope, no mounds. They came out today and said some pump is broken, but not to worry because gravity will keep it from backing into the house .

Count this as my first lesson regarding Florida houses. My old farmhouse in Indiana had no such fancy alarm for the septic