We just serviced a client that wanted a second opinion. They had water pooling over the septic tank. They called in a septic tank specialist who drained the tank and immediately diagnosed the problem as a failed leach field. Cost to replace the leach field would be $ 6,000.00
Mind you he never inspected the pipe run leaving the tank to the leach field. He never offered to run a camera to inspect. After all it could be a root intrusion on the outflow side.
The other two notables were the history. This had never happened before and the homeowners had been in the house just over a year. A month and a half prior we had a great deal of rain. One run of weather gave us almost 4 or five days of non stop rain and no problems with the septic. Typically, you would expect the saturated ground to give you drainage problems with the septic if it was going to happen.
What the homeowner did tell me was that they had just finished washing a tremendous amount of laundry all at one time. She ran approx 8 loads of laundry through the course of a day. I immediately suspected that they just overtaxed the system. You cant put that much water all at once into a system that was designed fifteen years ago. Don't forget that the wash water is in addition to all the other water running in the house for the day, dishes, showers etc for a family of 4.
Camera inspection of the tank revealed that the outflow baffle T was intact so I felt there was less of of chance of debris going out the outflow to the leach field lines. The T prevented us from negotiating the camera through the pipe run.
I suggested a wait and see attitude. The rains are over for the most part, the ground is drying out. The homeowner is going to take a much more conservative and planned approach to wash water usage and see if the problem goes away.
If the problem persists, then we can excavate on the edge of the tank for access to the outflow, run a camera in that portion of the line and search for a blockage.
4/30/12 Just a follow up note. I called the homeowner back and no more problems reported.
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