Editor’s note: This article features a Septic System Answer Man column that first ran in Pumper magazine nearly a decade ago, in December 2010. It includes the original column with tips from Roger Machmeier. The article addresses a common and timeless question, and we thought it would be worth republishing it here in full.
Question:
Summers in some regions can be dreadfully dry, which is good for leach fields, but bad for the pumping business. My question is this: Over certain fields, (almost everything here is trench and gravel) the drain lines showed dead surface vegetation above the lines, as opposed to the usual bright
