That's going to leave a mark.
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captain14
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That *****. What happened to the existing one?
Time frame for completion ?
Time frame for completion ?
58Yeoman
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Is your purple martin house occupied? I've been trying for two years to get some to come to my house.
matt_i
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Personally I would go rent a sod cutter and put all family members and kids to rolling it up and storing it somewhere. Even if it dies off/goes dormant it will be better than trying to seed it later. This might be too late...I see the trucks are already running...
Randy in Maine
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Stick one of these in the septic tank just as the effluent leaves the dual compartment tank. It helps remove some of the suspended solids in the wastewater.
http://zabelstore.stores.yahoo.net/gravity-effluent-filters-4--effluent-filters.html
http://zabelstore.stores.yahoo.net/gravity-effluent-filters-4--effluent-filters.html
Are you downspouts tied into the septic system ? I'd move them elsewhere if it were me.
kaymccampbell
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Yuck! Good luck.
JoeFin
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Leech fields don't last forever - and especially if your doing a lot of clothes washing with bleach and harsh detergents.
I hope your contractor recommended a "Diversion Valve" so you can alternate between leech fields when its all done.
I hope your contractor recommended a "Diversion Valve" so you can alternate between leech fields when its all done.
glentre
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Be very careful about trying to recover sod over a septic field since, especially in your case with a failing system. The ground and grass above is now contaminated with waste material from the toilets. Not a healthy thing to do.
Glen
Glen
roc_on_the_rocks
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That should explain that bright green lawn!
jmarkwolf
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Our field was failing to drain adequately about 15 years after building our house.
We had a guy come in and claim a non-permiable "bio-matt" had developed and was preventing draining. He explained it's kind of like a layer of jello.
He poked a hole through the middle of the field with a pole, pulled out the pole, and there was an immediate and loud gurgling sound as the field tried to drain into that single little hole through the bio-matt.
He then sunk a hole with the pole on a 1-foot grid and blasted it with a big blast of compressed air (little geisers erupted from each previous hole), to disrupt the bio-matt. Afterwards he installed an aeration pump in the tank to oxygenate the waste, like the waste water treatment plant does.
It's been fine ever since, 10 years or better. Costed a fraction of a new field.
We had a guy come in and claim a non-permiable "bio-matt" had developed and was preventing draining. He explained it's kind of like a layer of jello.
He poked a hole through the middle of the field with a pole, pulled out the pole, and there was an immediate and loud gurgling sound as the field tried to drain into that single little hole through the bio-matt.
He then sunk a hole with the pole on a 1-foot grid and blasted it with a big blast of compressed air (little geisers erupted from each previous hole), to disrupt the bio-matt. Afterwards he installed an aeration pump in the tank to oxygenate the waste, like the waste water treatment plant does.
It's been fine ever since, 10 years or better. Costed a fraction of a new field.
C_F
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Threads like this make me thankful I live in a town with a sewer system. 
EOC_Jason
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Yes, by adding that you now have aerobic bacteria (requires oxygen to survive) digesting the waste that is much, much, much more effective than the anaerobic bacteria (do not require oxygen to survive) found in classic septic systems.
With the aerobic digestion the grey water going out to fields or being pumped to sprinklers is more or less clear... They really are the way to go and if I ever have to do a septic again I would do an aerobic plant in a heartbeat.