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    What do you suppose the hose is for? Bad sign?

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    Default Re: Hose Coiled Around Septic

    Jump rope for the kids?

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    Irrigation system for the garden maybe.

    Put the pump in and the connect the hose to the water slide for the kids. Summer is here and schools are out soon.


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    Default Re: Hose Coiled Around Septic

    the septic drainage field may be filled / clogged and they pump out the grey water with it... my neighbors did that for 15 years or so long before I moved in, there were odd peice of hose, pipe, electical conduit in a rough line going out into the woods out back from that house.... New owners got a new system...


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    Default Re: Hose Coiled Around Septic

    Also possibly a convenient place to store hose where it would not get hit by mower? (Long shot guess).


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    Quote Originally Posted by kurt jensen View Post
    the septic drainage field may be filled / clogged and they pump out the grey water with it... my neighbors did that for 15 years or so long before I moved in, there were odd peice of hose, pipe, electical conduit in a rough line going out into the woods out back from that house.... New owners got a new system...
    I suppose that that's what they're doing here - the hose is connected to the ball valve on the discharge pipe inside the tank. I'm guessing that they turn the valve whenever there's a problem with the drain field; and let the system pump the brew out onto the ground.

    At least they weren't trying to hide it - the hose was still attached. Still, there was nothing mentioned on the disclosure - perhaps the owner's thought that this was normal SOP for this type of system.

    Nobody in the area will install the pressure type systems anymore - they're using aerobic systems. They don't even want to work on them - when they fail, they replace them with aerobic ones for around $6,500 a pop.


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    Default Re: Hose Coiled Around Septic

    The hose is a non issue.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Harry Janssen View Post
    The hose is a non issue.
    Exactly why do say it is a "non issue"?

    If you bought the property not knowing why the hose and pump were there, it becomes a potential issue.

    Possibly it is an aerator for the septic tank. I see the hose and a pump but can not see what type of pump. But I would suspect it is to pump out of tank as others have said.

    Last edited by Garry Sorrells; 06-11-2013 at 10:01 AM. Reason: PS

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