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On Mar 26, 3:23 pm, wrote:
My wife and I were planning to sell our home in Central NJ (clay dirt)
with very high water table. We have a septic and the septic appeared
to be fine but figured that we should have it tested so we don't have
any problems when we sell.

The inspector from a septic company tested the leech field he said it
is failing because the distribution box has water in it and the
distribution box should be dry if the system was working properly. He
also poked a few holes into the ground and showed me the water coming
to the surface.

After he left the holes he poked into the ground is now flooding my
yard. I tried plugging up the holes but that didn't work. The
inspector from the septic company said his boss would call. The boss
called and said we need a new septic system and would run $30,000.00.
We do not have sewer close enough to hook up. Do you have any
suggestions?

Water flowing on the surface of your leach field means it is
overloaded or not working.

Even if someone poked through the ground (possibly through piping!) and
caused a path for the underground fluid to flow above the ground easier
then
draining into the field? Did I miss something here?

The leach field is supposed to keep the
water below the surface under all conditions short of Noah's flood.
Assuming it worked properly when installed, your soil is plugged and
will not allow the effluent to saturate the surrounding subgrade. The
amount of laundry indicates this may be part of the problem; detergent
interferes with biological activity in the septic tank and leach field
that makes everthing work. When the leach field is plugged, the best
response is a new leach field. Everthing else is just a bandaid.

New systems to consider are new leach field; raised bed leach field;
aerobic treatment system (chorinates & sprinkles effluent on the
surface). The aerobic system may be the cheapest to install, but uses
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This is a good example of what NOT to do when selling a home. The
last thing I would do is call in a septic inspector to look for
problems. The buyer may do that if they choose to. And they will
likely call in a general home inspector. So now you have two
inspectors running around looking for anything they can find
wrong. By doing it as seller, this is exactly the mess you open
yourself up to. Had the seller not had it inspected, as far as he
knows, he has a functioning septic system with no problems. Now, no
matter what happens, with the disclosure laws in NJ, legally he very
likely has to make a disclosure of what he knows about this to
buyers. My advice is to get a copy of the disclosure law/form and see
exactly what it says ASAP.

Yeah you're a real team player aren't you. You suspect there may be a
reason to inspect your septic system but you absolutely refuse to because it
might point to a potential deal breaking problem with a buyer not
experienced enough to check.

Excuse, me. That is very different from what was stated by the OP:

"We have a septic and the septic appeared
to be fine but figured that we should have it tested so we don't have
any problems when we sell"

As the situation was stated, there was no evidence of any problem at
all.


"Just ignore everything and let the sucker who buys this place find all the
faults *AFTER* he buys it"

I hope you're more courteous in traffic-

No, I just follow the rules that we all work under, like most
people. I don't expect a seller to have an inspection done with the
purpose of finding things wrong prior to selling a property. That is
not normal practice. What do you do when you're gonna sell a car?
Do you take a car with no problems that you know of down to a mechanic
and pay him to find everything wrong with it so you can either fix it
or tell the buyer? Or do you say, it runs great, is in good
condition and it's being sold as is? Virtually everyone does the
latter. Those are the rules that everyone plays by.

And with a house, I would feel absolutely no obligation to call in a
septic company to look into a septic system with no evident problems.
Nor would I expect any other seller to do it. That's how the sales
process works. If you want to take a big loss and open up a can of
worms by being "courteous", go right ahead.