Subject: Re: Epic Disaster or Overreaction? Cesspool backup
From: Deeder Virago 
Newsgroups: misc.consumers.house
Thread-Topic: Epic Disaster or Overreaction? Cesspool backup
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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 16:30:42 GMT

Our house is at the bottom of a hill, at the back of the lot. We have no
backyard; it's all front yard. The cesspool is at the back corner of the
house. The area there is perhaps ten feet square.

The "pro" who came out talked about an elaborate system of reversing the
plumbing in our house, setting up large pumps and tanks, and pumping
everything uphill to a leech field. There's no way to get vehicles back
there - all the work would have to be done by hand.



On 7/26/06 1:44 AM, in article
1153903490.080821.207600@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com,
"trader4@optonline.net"  wrote:
> 
> 
> I wouldn't be worried about it collapsing.  Cesspools are pumped empty
> all the time and no special precautions are taken.  As long as you use
> common sense and don't drive a truck over it, you should be fine.
> 
> On the other hand, the bad news is that with a 60 yr old cesspool, it's
> likely at the end of it's life.   The fact that it was pumped and
> completely filled again in a week is a bad sign.   I wouldn't be too
> hard on yourself that you caused it either.  60 years worth of all
> kinds of stuff going in there and eventually the surrounding soil can
> become plugged up to a degree that the water can no longer filter out.
> 
> Why do you think it will be nearly impossible to install a new septic
> system?
>