Idaho Digger
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Let me preface this by mentioning I've been a member of the YT forums for 16-18 years, stop by daily, and put high value on level headed opinions.
This has to do with my neighbors busted septic line (red line in pic)that runs 400' thru my property.
Small town north Idaho, population about 900, my “neighbor” is the self-proclaimed Mayor in the bars downtown at which he can be found from noon to closing most every night. Probably 75 years old, 2 tours in Nam, hospitalized several times for “Anger Issues” and an unpleasant guy all around. When my wife and our grandkids play on our property which goes to his driveway he will come out waving a shovel, hollering, and brings out weapons and shoots his shed on our property line. No town cop, Sheriff says he can't do much without catching him firing a weapon or threatening us.
His septic line is 30+ years old and has been gurgling up solids, toilet paper, etc on my prop down by the front road since last spring. I notified him over the fence row, and he came after me with a shovel handle and told me it was my problem. Now it's gurgling up in 2 more areas between his house and mine, In this heat odor is terrible, wife won't take grand kids out in our 2acre yard to play.
I worked up the ladder from city employees to city manager, the mayor, and now have the County Health office involved, complaint has been filed.
Health Dept official called tonight and told me I need to discuss the problem with the neighbor, NOT going to happen without a Sheriff present.
Only way to fix 30 year old septic line is to start digging at the city sewer hook-up by my driveway and dig +/- 300” across my property. I told county health It needs to be repaired by licensed plumber, not his bar friends, but the question is~
What should I charge him to dig up my property and repair his pipe?
Google Earth pic is a couple years old, We've hand dug and installed 350 feet of split rail fence, planted 200ft of lawn, and probably planted 20 bushes and trees approximately where his sewer line is.
Another neighbor who has had run-ins with the guy suggested 100 dollars a day and 10 dollars a foot because I'll have to remove trees, bushes, lawn after it's dug, even if I write something up stating that my property needs to be returned to it's original state.
Whatcha think? Any and all opinions appreciated!
Scott
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