Posted by WA-Hal on January 06, 2011 at 20:35:18 from (208.81.157.90):
In Reply to: O/T sewer problems posted by 37 Chief on January 05, 2011 at 19:48:19:
I don't know where you live, but around here, doing anything with a septic system is a huge bureaucratic hassle, and can be extremely expensive.
35 years ago, I did my septic system the legal way, and it has worked just fine all these years. I have had the tank pumped a few times and am careful about limiting driving vehicles over the drain field area. So far, so good.
But most of my neighbors, who build in the last 20 years have been forced to put in "pressure mounds", which require an electric pump to push the effluent up into the mound. Building such a system usually costs at least $10K, but I know of a couple of systems that cost way more. It wouldn't be so bad, except that many of the mound systems fail after a few years, and end up with effluent flowing out on the surface of the mound. So the environmental health people make the owners redo the mound part of the system.
If my drainfield failed and started leaking effluent to the surface, I would get a backhoe, dig some new ditches, put in the perforated pipe and gravel and cover it up some weekend and never notify the bureaucracy. But with any luck, it will not fail, and will continue to work fine by gravity.
But hopefully, your local government does not insist on interfering as much as ours does. I would put in a proper drainfield, maybe like the diagram posted earlier. And if I had any 20' deep pits on my property, I would fill them in with something--they sound kind of dangerous. Good luck!
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