Buying a four-bedroom home with a flooded basement heightened the risk factor for a house flipper in Southbury, Connecticut.
A management company hired to extract the standing water opened the septic clean-out and pumped in 26,000 gallons, destroying the 1,000 gpd system with stone-and-pipe drainfield. That day, the flipper sold the house, unaware of the mishap.
The flipper hired Mark Lancor, P.E., owner of DYMAR in Southbury, to design a replacement. Lancor hired Mark Green, owner of Green Construction Management in Waterbury, to dig the test holes and install the system before the home sale closing date.
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