Leejosepho
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Yes, and I had a couple of other thoughts today ...
You might use something like a long 3/8" rod to poke in the ground and feel for the pipe coming out of your septic tank, and you can follow that pipe to the distributiox box, if you have one. Probing like that can be simpler than digging holes or a trench to look around.
In any case, one thing you might do is to dig a hole somewhere near your discharge pipe, then line the hole with some old bricks or concrete blocks to keep it from caving in and cut a slit or a small "V" in the side of the pipe so it can leak into the hole and then cover the hole with something that will keep animals and people from falling in it. In other words, install a shunt that will give excessive water some place to go.
All of that would probably not be a good idea if you were going to be continuing to depend upon a septic tank that might tilt or sink when the ground around it gets saturated, but that tank is going to be broken and filled when you are hooked up to the new city sewer.
You might use something like a long 3/8" rod to poke in the ground and feel for the pipe coming out of your septic tank, and you can follow that pipe to the distributiox box, if you have one. Probing like that can be simpler than digging holes or a trench to look around.
In any case, one thing you might do is to dig a hole somewhere near your discharge pipe, then line the hole with some old bricks or concrete blocks to keep it from caving in and cut a slit or a small "V" in the side of the pipe so it can leak into the hole and then cover the hole with something that will keep animals and people from falling in it. In other words, install a shunt that will give excessive water some place to go.
All of that would probably not be a good idea if you were going to be continuing to depend upon a septic tank that might tilt or sink when the ground around it gets saturated, but that tank is going to be broken and filled when you are hooked up to the new city sewer.
