Our small septic pumping company recently had one of those “teachable moments” occur while out in the field. I hope our unfortunate experience can serve to help other pumpers prepare for unfore-seen accidents.
It was the second day in service for our newest vacuum truck and we had just finished pumping our third 1,000-gallon septic tank. The truck has an aluminum 3,400-gallon waste/200-gallon freshwater tank. The freshwater compartment has a sight tube showing the water level, while the waste compartment has four tempered glass sight windows set at 1,000, 1,500, 2,000 and 2,500 gallons.
THERE SHE BLOWS
We had finished cleaning the septic
