When a home inspector turned on the water and it ran down the drain, he concluded the onsite system must function. Then the home sale went one step further and had the tanks exposed so someone could watch the water in the tank while running water in the house. In this example, the water rose above the outlet pipe. The conclusion was that the soil absorption bed must be saturated or failed and no longer taking water.
I would say this conclusion is not yet correct, as an important step has been skipped: pumping the tank.I’ve seen many times where a
