Wrong direction to take.

weeG wrote in message
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It's been a few dry days and there is no improvement. I'll be buying some
rubber gloves and a shovel tomorrow. Wish me luck. Thanks
"weeG" wrote in message
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It's been real wet here this spring and the lawn over the leech bed is
much
wetter than the rest of the lawn. A neighbour who has lived in town
suggested that it might also be that the lines are just full of water.
The
weather shows 4 or 5 days of dry weather coming up so I'm going to leave
it
be for few days and keep a close eye on it. If it's still puddling over
the
tank after a few dry days I'll start digging the leech field from the
tank
out and hope I can find and clear/replace any blocked pipes.

Thanks

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"weeG" wrote in message
news In my case the tank was just pumped a couple of months back so I'm
thinking
my problem is output from the tank not input. The same process for
either
direction into or out of the tank?

No, out of the tank goes into your leech field, you don't want to be
flooding that with water. After a good amount of time, a leech field
can
become dirt/clay heavy instead of rock. When that happens your leech
field
fails to do it's job properly. That's when you have to bring in the
backhoe, dig it all out and lay fresh rock, then cover it back up with
dirt/topsoil/sod.

Septic tanks work well when they work, but when they go whacko, it's
never
an easy job.