I n the past few months, there have been articles and news reports from various parts of the country about homeowners falling into septic tanks. Fortunately, the most recent ones I have seen resulted in the homeowners being rescued and with no real harm done other than the embarrassment of being “pulled” out of sewage.Those articles were coupled with someone sharing a practice that I was previously unaware of: trying to “fix’’ a concrete tank with a deteriorating lid by placing rebar on top of the lid and pouring concrete over the top of the tank.TEMPORARY REPAIRSWhen my colleagues and
