While my driver Josh was crawling around under a house I got a call from one of my excavators. They are putting in a new turn lane on a busy industrial street in Portland. They found a septic tank. Good news for me. I hurried out there and started pumping. 4,000 gallons later I got it done. It took me a bit as I filled the truck in the middle of the job and had to go dump. So I stopped and dumped the remainder on the way back to the office as it was on the way.
When I got back I had a call for an old couple that we had serviced thier tank and cleaned the inlet line last year. It was backing up again and it sounded like issues beyond the tank by the way he was describing it but he insisted that we snake the line to the tank. OK. Of course that wasn't the problem. Found the D Box and got it uncovered and whadayaknow, it's full of water.
Some fella had installed one run of about 50' of Infiltrator about 5 years ago. It fixed the problem at the time I guess. You could see in the grass where the black water was surfacing and I pointed it out.
As it turns out we pumped the tank so they had a litte usable room. I plugged the drainfield off as best I could so it wouldn't run back. I'll be bringing them a portable toilet tomorow morning and giving them a list of installers to call.
They are going to wind up with a sand filter or ATT unit as the ground water is super high. Fortunately, I believe they have the means to get it done.
All in all it was a profitable day and we've got 3 jobs booked for tomorow and one for thursday!
Sorry for the book long post, I'm just happy to be busy.
Good day today...
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It was a pain to get dialed in and I personally see a flaw in the engineering. (I think. 
) Can't recall the system name right now. 
) the reasons why they are needed.
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