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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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