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Rainy Season – How it Affects Your Septic System

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We all know how the rainy season can be, but have you thought about how it’s affecting your septic system?

Septic systems are supposed to be sealed from all ground water. However age affects the best of us and that can be said for your septic system as well. Age can deteriorate or weaken it’s seal against groundwater infiltration. If your system had been infiltrated, your pump will struggle or fail to keep up resulting in an overflow.

Our state of the art technology can help detect and diagnose in these situations.

Are You Using Baby Wipes?

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Do you or someone you know use baby wipes? When they’re done, do they just toss them away?

Here’s something to think about. While the package may say flushable, recognize that only means it will easily go down the toilet and to your tank. What happens to it once it gets there? It’s biodegrades, right? Eventually, that’s correct.

In the meantime, you have mounds of baby wipes (we all know how many a baby needs) building up in your tank, bio-degrading at different rates. Your pump has to avoid them. And once you’re at the point of needing your tank pumped, the pump truck now has to avoid them. It neither is successful in avoidance, this can end up being a very costly “throw-away” for you.

Your best option is to throw it away. Not in your toilet, but with the diaper. Save yourself the potential cost of repair.