Finding septic tanks is all in a day’s work for many pumpers. They use everything from sophisticated cameras with sondes to shovels, probes and backhoes. Gene Wiehr of Wiehr’s Septic Service in Arlington, S.D., however, prefers a less conventional tool – divining rods.
Wiehr, 55, is a water witch or dowser, a skill he practices in a rural agricultural area far from hydrologists, geophysicists and geologists. Albert Einstein wrote: “The dowsing rod is a simple instrument which shows the reaction of the human nervous system to certain factors that are presently unknown to us.” Wiehr believes that something in his body
