Several decades ago I was called out to a new house experiencing problems with their onsite system. They had effluent coming up out of the manhole covers of their brand-new system.
This was before effluent filters were required so it wasn’t a plugged filter. Typically, our first response back then would have been to put the sewer machine in and cut through and remove the blockage. Boy, am I glad we didn’t. For some reason their pumper already measured out the blockage and said it was 15 feet out from the tank. So we dug down and found that an electric
