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  • From: <eureka AT hctc.net>
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  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Does this idea stink?
  • Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:45:01 -0500

The county shows our septic tank as having already been crushed and filled. Imagine our surprise to find it still there after living here for seven years! My guess is the contractor ripped off the former owners, but maybe they knew and just passed the problem on to us. The yard is fenced with welded pipe and wire panels so it's unlikely we could get a backhoe to it. We would likely fill it with rocks and dirt if we can't find a better use.

On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:10:01 -0400
Roy Morgan <k1lky AT earthlink.net> wrote:

On Jun 24, 2008, at 2:55 PM, Gene GeRue wrote:

Warren, if the drainage is good, what do you think about sterilizing
it with steam, then coating the inside with a non-permeable paint or
plaster?

I had both mildew in the cellar of my earlier house and a friend who was a microbiologist (for the department of Interior - working on the very strange organisms that could grow in lead and tin mine runoff areas). She told me that the only practical way to get rid of mildew was household bleach. Applied full strength and possibly repeated.

I'm not sure you can get that tank and its surrounding dirt hot enough with any steam treatment to do any good.

Note: the old septic tank abandoned last year here had to be, by health department regulation, crushed and filled in with dirt or the like. I'm now left with a sunken place at the rear porch steps that I need to fill in further.

Roy

Roy Morgan
k1lky AT earthlink.net
Lovettsville, VA 20180



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