Team Seacats

I don’t swear much, if at all, on this site but it’s appropriate for this post. Our house is tied into city provided sewer lines but, to my surprise – and that of the heavy lift truck driver – my bathroom in my shop is not. This afternoon, a fork lift driving two pallets of cinder block into the back yard crashed through the lid of an active septic tank that I never knew was there. Fortunately, the driver is perfect fine – though he was pretty concerned about roll-over (I’m not sure how possible that was) and he engaged immediate C.Y.A. maneuvers by somehow blaming my wife, Bonnie, for the problem (?!). Anyway, all is well – nobody is hurt and it’s really not as bad as it sounds. I’ll need to clean out the septic tank, repair the discharge tubing, and put a new lid on it. The tank appears quite large and should be able to support both the existing and new bathroom…hopefully the drainfield is of reasonable size. If it’s not adequate for the new bathroom, it won’t cost me any more later than it would now to run a new sewer line to the street – so I can wait and see. While it’s not a great thing to figure this out in such a manner, there are some fortunate things to it; A) the tank is under a natural / grassy area I had planned and not under future pavement B) it appears to have plenty of overcapacity and C) the drain field, amazingly, isn’t under where the footers for the new building are going.

Awww Shit