On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:51:51 -0500, "J.A. Michel"
wrote:


I appreciate what you're saying, Ed. I don't really see any difference
weather the thing is in use or not, it's there.
The thing would be just as prone to cave in if it were in use right? Does
the fact that it's not in use
make it not safer than inuse?

It's that it is older.

I think it is that these things go from being in use to being out of
use, and very rarely go from out of use to in use. So things that are
out of use are on average much older than the ones that are in use.

Say that septic tanks are used on average for 30 years. So assume the
average age of an in-use septic tank is 15 years.

But the average starting-age of a non-used septic tank would then be
30 years, and the the average age could easily be more than 45 years.
More than 3 times the average age of an in-use tank. And getting
older all the time.

So what's the difference? Like I said, it's
not a problem for me. I'm not
getting out the backhoe to go digging for problems. Yes, I will leave it
for the next owner,

If the next owner were in full control of everything that happened
because of it that would be fine, but he doesn't and can't control
everyone who walks on his lawn. Nor can you.

as it was left by a previous
owner for me. I will inform the next owner about it, not hiding nothing.
The previous owners did not bother to tell me about it......

What has that got to do with it?