Despite being in close proximity to a major metropolitan city, homes in the areas around Seattle often utilize septic systems rather than public sewers. “It’s the topography,” says Jamie Long, owner of Jamie’s Septic Service in Kent, Wash. “There are literally hundreds and hundreds of bodies of water that would interrupt sewer lines.”Long’s father Gary Long has been in the septic service business since 1977, but when Long made the decision to do the same, he didn’t want to go to work for his dad or any of the other contractors he knew. He wanted to work for himself, by
