The owner of a rental house had a failing onsite system, and untreated wastewater was flowing downhill toward a creek. But when a crew from BBB Septic of Bentonville, Arkansas, replaced the old tank, it was clear a new tank would not solve the problem because the drainfield was also failing.
The house was probably built in the 1950s and had a septic tank with cement block walls and a concrete slab for a bottom, says Piper Satterfield, septic system design specialist with BBB. It’s another version of a cesspool, she says. “I don’t know about the rest of the country,
