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I posted this on the Projects board but thought it would get more attention here. We are in the process of buying a home with a septic that failed its inspection. The sellers are having a new one put in. Two septic companies have suggested the new system be put in where there is a small hill/slopey area because it is the driest area on the whole 1 acre of land. We've had some rain so it was quite visable to them. I am concerned about it being put on a slope because two people have told me they have had issues with their tanks being on a slope. Smell and the land being saturated in that area. The area that they are suggesting the new system go does have drain curtains and I am assuming that that will take care of any saturation problems. Is it the slope that is causing their problems? Is there any known problems with septic systems being put on a slope? Could it be that the systems were not properly installed? From what I was told they did have them pumped regularly. They are in NY and I am thinking maybe their laws are different. Here in CT the health dept has to okay the location. From what I gathered from the conversations, the septic tank itself will be on flat land along with a pump? We are paying to have a biger tank put in (they have a 1000 gallon now but we might expand to a 4 bedroom so we are having a 1250 gallon put in) I noticed someone mentioned in a previous post it goes by # of bathrooms and # of bedrooms, in the state of CT I was told it goes by the # of bedrooms only-is this okay? If we do expand there would be two more bathrooms added. There are 3 now but I don't think all 5 bathrooms would be going at once and I doubt2 of the 5 bathrooms would even get used but I guess we will cross that bridge when we get there 10 years from now! I hope someone could shed some light on this for me. I am glad they are putting in a new system but because others have voiced their opinions, I am concerned about the location being on a slope. Also, I heard that mount systems have issues, do you think this is the type of system they will install? Thanks in advance!
I posted this on the Projects board but thought it would get more attention here. We are in the process of buying a home with a septic that failed its inspection. The sellers are having a new one put in. Two septic companies have suggested the new system be put in where there is a small hill/slopey area because it is the driest area on the whole 1 acre of land. We've had some rain so it was quite visable to them. I am concerned about it being put on a slope because two people have told me they have had issues with their tanks being on a slope. Smell and the land being saturated in that area. The area that they are suggesting the new system go does have drain curtains and I am assuming that that will take care of any saturation problems. Is it the slope that is causing their problems? Is there any known problems with septic systems being put on a slope? Could it be that the systems were not properly installed? From what I was told they did have them pumped regularly. They are in NY and I am thinking maybe their laws are different. Here in CT the health dept has to okay the location. From what I gathered from the conversations, the septic tank itself will be on flat land along with a pump? We are paying to have a biger tank put in (they have a 1000 gallon now but we might expand to a 4 bedroom so we are having a 1250 gallon put in) I noticed someone mentioned in a previous post it goes by # of bathrooms and # of bedrooms, in the state of CT I was told it goes by the # of bedrooms only-is this okay? If we do expand there would be two more bathrooms added. There are 3 now but I don't think all 5 bathrooms would be going at once and I doubt2 of the 5 bathrooms would even get used but I guess we will cross that bridge when we get there 10 years from now! I hope someone could shed some light on this for me. I am glad they are putting in a new system but because others have voiced their opinions, I am concerned about the location being on a slope. Also, I heard that mount systems have issues, do you think this is the type of system they will install? Thanks in advance!
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