Ballpark cost for water well and septic in St. Tammany

The cheapest method is to build one yourself. Just don't tell the government or plan to sell the house.

This method will only cost you a couple hundred bucks in concrete and a day or two worth of labor.

1. Find a low spot in your yard a little ways from your house that's out of sight. Make sure the soil is drainable and not clay.
2. Dig a trench 6 inches wide and about 4 feet deep in the shape of a square or rectangle. The width depends on the size of the home. I would say 4 feet wide and 3 feet long is enough for the average house.
3. About 1 foot down, Place your sewage pipe through the trench and jam it a few inches into the dirt in the middle.
4. Fill the trench with rebar and concrete.
5. After the concrete dries, dig out the dirt center. Keep the floor of it dirt. You can dig a deep hole in the center if you would like. but don't dig near the concrete walls as you don't want it to collapse.
6. The hardest part is constructing a lid. There are many ways to do it. The easiest is a steel sheet. It will need to be removeable in case of a blockage.
7. You will want some sort of ventilation for the tank so shitty air doesn't force its way into your house. You can either add a T coupling to the PVC just before it reaches the septic tank with a pipe sticking up out of the ground. You can add two 90 degree couplings to have the hole facing down (you don't want rain water entering the tank.) the other option is incorporate ventilation into your lid somehow.

I learned this growing up a redneck. The septic tank I built is still in use and never had an issue.

Do you recommend removing the wheels to access the sewer drain?

You might have designed the plumbing system for a rental house I lived in (on the beach believe it or not. 3rd tier). The washer drain just daylighted out of the wall to save capacity in the tank. The yard had a distinct odor.

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So you are not treating your shite, piss and bath water and just dumping it in your field?

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Its dumped in a concrete bottomless tank that's on low ground. The walls of the tank run 4ft deep.

Never smelled shite once. The ground does the filtering.

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Do you recommend removing the wheels to access the sewer drain?

You might have designed the plumbing system for a rental house I lived in (on the beach believe it or not. 3rd tier). The washer drain just daylighted out of the wall to save capacity in the tank. The yard had a distinct odor.

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No, I would never advise constructing a bottomless tank near a beach.

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No, your shite/piss/bathwater is leaching into the well on your property, or into the aquifer below. I know you will say that the ground filters out all the impurities, but what if everyone used your approach to waste treatment? It's like a third world country...It's why they banned outhouses and have codes for septic systems.

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Buddy, this was built deep in the woods a mile from the nearest neighbor.

This obviously should not be constructed in an urban or suburban area.

Well should be about $4500 for the first 100 foot, no pump or tank included.

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Does that type system just mist shite and piss into the air?

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Not going to get into the details of how an encased septic system works and treats the waste, you can "read" that for yourself on the google.

But to answer your question directly, no.

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No, that water has already been through the proper chambers to clean the water.

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Where does urine and feces go after being treated?