Re: Dairy Farmers to save the planet

Posted by Don-Wi on December 17, 2009 at 19:57:44 from (70.194.167.220):

In Reply to: Dairy Farmers to save the planet posted by Showcrop on December 17, 2009 at 05:31:52:

With where my parent's place is, it's about impossible to get away with anything.

My parent's house was built after septics were banned without a mound, so a "holding tank" was installed, but then the guy knocked a hole in it near the top and hooked into the same tile that the old farm house was on, as well as the milkhouse. It all ran down to the creek. The county has been getting tighter and tighter the last few years ot make sure those who have holding tanks actually are having them pumped, and they're not "customised" like my parents tank was for all those years.

Basically they were busted. My dad dug down and was going to try to disconnect it and patch the hole, but the concrete tank was deteriorated so bad, it just kept crumbling away. Had to have it replaced, and a guy from the county had to be there the whole time to watch that it was done right.

They originally told us that it had to be so many feet from the driveway or we would have to make an acess to it. Where it was, was too far away from the farm driveway. Dad wanted to extend the area where the truck was parked, which would have satisfied them. Mom and I put our feet down though, because if we would have done that, it would have gone right over where we've buried our last 2 dogs. If we would have dug down 1st, we probably would have hit their bones and I just can't bring myself to disturb any grave, even of a beloved pet. The other option was to rip out the lilac and go next to it. Again Mom put her foot down.

Then they wanted us to moev the tank about 50 feet so it would be near the driveway. After enough fighting and opposition, Dad was able to keep the tank in the same place, and not have to extend the driveway.

The next year the old steel septic on the farm house went bad. The top caved in and again it was way too far gone to be able to do anything about. Had 2 plastic tanks installed on that house, and instead of trying to go between that house and my parents (about 20 feet apart) and again ripping out a lilac and magnolia bush Mom got for mothers day quite a few years ago, and go through he flower bed, we put those tanks in the front yard and called it good enough. Drilled a hole through the stone foundation and had the sewer pipe plumbed the other way in the house.

Now my brother is pretty nervous about his septic, as his is the only one left by us now. His is grandfathered in and is working good, but in all reality, it's probably only a matter of time. That one you can see a green line in the feild during the summer where the drain tile runs straight north. Apparantly the tile is supposed to make a jog to the east then to connect to the ditch that's only about 100 feet over. Right about there is a wet hole in the feild though, and we think the tile might have been crushed a few years ago when they were running city sewer/water along the hwy. They shouldn't have been anyway near the line, but they were running quite a ways into our fields like they owned it.

That's a whole nother story.

Donovan from Wisconsin

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