Making your daily pumping rounds, you’ve witnessed the myriad of ways homeowners sabotage their septic systems through poor landscaping or other uninformed land-use choices. When the driveway is crowded, they park cars over the septic system. They construct a wooden deck over the septic tank, hindering your access. They plant a water-hungry weeping willow tree next to the drainfield.They invite root intrusion, soil compaction and broken and damaged drainlines, and then wonder why they’re having problems maintaining the septic system. You patiently share the do’s and don’ts of caring for a septic system and wish someone was out there to
