Seepage pit Q (insert poop joke here)

We have a seepage pit rather than typical leaching field in our septic system.

I have always thought it was a straight shot out of the the tank, about 20' further "downstream." This is what the drawing told me, and I found a small pipe buried close to the surface in that general area which I assumed was a locating doohickey.

After the grading work I have been doing I stumbled upon a bunch of concrete chunks. Too dark for a pic, but this is a good 15' from where the pit should be, and would be about 45 degrees out from where the tank is. The countours of the concrete lead me to believe it is more than coincidence and something is there. Didn't have time to keep unearthing, it is perhaps 8" under top soil.

So.... do these things typically have any kind of locating means aside from digging? Would it be likely to be anywhere but "straight" out of the septic tank? Is it possible I have an auxilliary tank not on the drawing? Did I find Hoffa?

I will take some pics if I can tomorrow.

 

Chit.................don't know what to tell you.....................

 

OK, I've said it before and I'll say it again...
"A straight flush beats a full house!"

 

I see this will be a productive thread...

 

Where's Gasifier????

 

Kinda stinks no one has any answers!

Gary

 

I have two tanks:



Some people around here have a tank and a drain field. The drain field has pipes from the tank leading into small concerte "tanks". The small concrete tanks feed porous pipes buried in gravel or rocks or broken concrete that permit the fluids to leech into the ground.



Try to figure out which components you have found...

KaptJaq

Edit:
PS My guy used a thin steel rod poked through the soil to find the old components. He knew when the house had been built and what the code required back then. Basically said it had to be so many feet from the house and so many feet from the well head. It also had to have a specific slope to help the flow. The further from the house the deeper he probed. It did not matter what the direction was between each part.

KJ

 

Good advice there Kap. Although, you can tell from the images, especially the second, just exactly what the producer of the image was trying to sway your opinion of....
I've used the "thin steel rod" trick more than once to locate a septic tank....

 

I'm going to have to play scientist and figure this one out. My system, per the drawing, is like KaptJaq first picture. The steel rod I discovered one day out there and matched the location perfectly.

This other mystery has "backed up" my progress.

 

Does everything go out in one pipe? Old houses around here sometimes drained the grey water in a separate pipe. Maybe that's what those concrete blocks are for.

 

Good question but house was built in 1985 and there is no separate grey water line nor tank.

 

Do you have two tanks AND a leeching field? I've seen that on occasion on plots that had borderline water absorption ability. They would try to spread the waste water as much as possible.

Another possibility, was there another house on the site before the current one? Are you finding the remnants of their system?

KaptJaq

 

To my knowledge no prior buildings here. I also think there is just the septic tank which feeds the seepage pit. That's it... wouldn't be the first time a drawing was wrong or not updated properly when a change was made.

May be a week before I find out, going to have to build my ark tonight as we are looking at 5" of rain in the next 5 days or something like that.

 

Poopage is toxic......doncha know.

 

That's why a propane tank is call an "LP" tank----liquid and poop.