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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

If you do fill it in , make sure you use , as was suggested below, rocks and 
dirt.  I have seen the collapse of a 60 year old septic tank  .  If a honda 
accord had been sitting there it would have dissappeared.  The thing hadn't 
been used in decades and was evidently filled with creosote posts.  Thats all 
we found after the cave-in; slivers of creosote wood, and some old small 
junk, bottles, etc.....bobford


--- On Tue, 6/24/08, Warren <mogrits AT gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Warren <mogrits AT gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Does this idea stink?
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Tuesday, June 24, 2008, 12:15 PM
> No way. Concrete is porous, which means it is saturated with
> all sorts of
> pathogens. Also, the ground adjacent to the tank will hold
> the same nasties.
> Even if you could clean it initially, and somehow even
> sterilize it- the
> groundwater will force it's way back into the tank,
> recontaminating it. You
> will be better off to collapse the lid and backfill it with
> rubble, stones
> and dirt.
> 
> You asked for opinions and that's mine
> 
> Warren
> 
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