I often receive questions from homeowners about their septic systems. It’s no surprise that they are usually about a specific problem they are having. Recently I received a different kind of question. A person was being relocated for work and was looking at houses in different locations outside a metropolitan area. The question was how to find out if there are problems with high groundwater in the area. This homeowner had lived in a home where the septic system was replaced due, at least in part, to the presence of saturated soil near the surface; and the person did not
