I went to my cabin this week to dig up the septic tank cap. I found where the line came out of the house, and followed it for a few feet. It was angled down into the ground at a steep angle, and I did not reach the tank.
I took two metal dowsing rods and located all the branches off the line from the house. It looks like there is a main line from the cabin, a branch off that, and then five lateral lines off that branch. I could not locate a septic tank. We ran a hose down the line from the house, and it went twenty feet straight to a point on the hill where past that, there could not be a tank. And none of the lines hooked into a line coming out of where a tank might be. At bottom is an attempt of what the lines look like.
A friend of mine who is in construction big time suggested that the whole thing was made without a septic tank, as it is a seasonal cabin, and only gets light use.
The only other thing I can do is dig, dig, dig, to see if I can dig down to the suspected branches, or hit the actual tank. But by the looks of the surface located lines, there is no septic tank.
Anyone ever heard of this? What would you do?
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