We had an exciting development on Friday. They dug the trenches and started laying the drain field. I noticed there was something...big...missing. Like the old drain field. There were no plastic or concrete pipes being dug up with the trenches. Only tree roots. Where the heck was the old drain field? After the guys left, we went poking around and found they had uncovered a second old septic tank. Huh? Where did that come from? It was located suspiciously under what used a be a mound of dirt and an ornamental tree-that M removed last year. It was apparent that the original owner abandoned this old tank and put in a new one...but it had no drain field because it had no base. It drained straight down.
When we first started having problems with the septic and started calling people out to solve the problem, one solution was terralift. This is when they break up the soil around the drain field and create new pathways for air and water to improve drainage. It was pretty expensive-about half the cost of a new system and no guarantees, so we decided to get a new system instead. Boy am I glad we didn't pay to have someone terralift my yard that doesn't even have a drain field! Another company wanted to hose out the drain field pipes. Would that be something when they said, "...uhhh...we can't find the pipes!"
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| IJ pretends that he dug up that whole stump. |
