pb4uski
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Farmer Brown, who once owned our old farmhouse, decided it was high time they had running water in the house in the late 1950s or so. He built a frame kitchen/bathroom add-on to the old cream-brick edifice, a well was drilled and piping was run into the house. To keep costs down, they skipped the septic drain field and just ran a pipe from the tank to a nearby alfalfa field to drain off the effluent. The home inspector spotted the shortcoming when we were looking at the place about 30 years later. The county condemned the system shortly thereafter.
Many of the older summer "camps" around here had the sewer from the house going into an underground sistern made of cedar logs.... effluent would leach out in the cracks between the logs and the solids would settle in the bottom.... actually, not a horrible idea for gray water if the soils leach well.