"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Tim wrote:
Harry Krause wrote:
Party is over. Crew showed up, dug up the access covers, broke up the
sludge in the solids tank, emptied tanks, et cetera, and a grand time
was had by all.


Nothing like a good "honey dippin' " to start the year off right!



Indeed. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Last time I had this
done, it was many years ago and in the summer. The stench then would have
offended even those in my killfile here. Maybe.

I now have technical knowledge I never had before, including the fact that
we have a multi-chamber 2500-gallon septic tank. Isn't that the most
exciting thing? :}


Multi chamber is a requirement here... but 2500 gallons sounds big.

When I built my cape Cod back in 1975 I installed the concrete syphon
type... 1st big chamber emptied into a smaller chamber that emptied into a
siphon chamber.... which spit out it's contents at regular intervals.
Fiberglass tanks were just getting popular here at that time but I went
traditional.