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OT: Is there a plumbing/septic expert in the house?
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Posted by B Millar [Email] (#1109) [Profile/Gallery] (more from B Millar) on Fri, 1 Aug 2014 07:08:52 Share Post by Email
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My family has a house up in the Adirondacks of New York on Raquette Lake. It was built in 2006-ish and is on a peninsula with no road access. Last year we had big issues when the whole family was there (16+ people) with the plumbing gurgling and toilets not flushing. So we barged ($$$) over the truck to have the tank emptied. It was FULL. That lasted about 10 months and we're back to where we were last summer.

Being in the middle of nowhere we're in a ~2 week period of limbo waiting to get an excavator out there to dig stuff up. In the meantime we've hand-dug to expose the main lateral and the beginning of one of the five infiltrators. So far the only thing that we can see is that most of the system is submerged in groundwater. Logic says if the system is in the groundwater table the effluent water has nowhere to go.

None of our neighbors are having any issues. None of them have EVER had to empty their septic tanks and they've been there a good 10-20 years longer than us. Needless to say, not being able to flush and the smell in the backyard with things exposed is putting quite the damper on summer fun at the lake. Anyone have any ideas? Experts will be there in a couple weeks, but I'm being impatient.



Just in case it may be relevant, in 2010-ish we had a MASSIVE pine tree (4' diameter at the base) fall on the house. The tree split in half at the ridge of the roof, half rolled down the front of the house, and half down the back, landing over the septic tank. It was quite the insurance claim. When we had the tank cleaned, both of the concrete lids were cracked. Not sure what this would do anything to the water table though.



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