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I find it hard to believe that where a public sewer is accessible, that anyone would be allowed to, much less choose to, go with a septic system. That being said . . . .
We've been on a septic system in our new house now for five-years. Never ever occurred to us to have the system pumped. Our old house built in the '40s we lived in down the street for 38-years was on an ancient septic system and the only problem was tree trimmers crushed the Orangeburg pipe coming out of the house to the septic tank (look up Orangeburg). At that time they never could find our distribution system so we had a complete new one put in, and never pumped that one in probably twenty-years.
The new house got a tank the size of a large SUV and some high-tech distribution lines. I'm not worried about it, but then I didn't have a choice. We're on a well, too, so when my friends in neighborhoods with private water systems complain about the cost of water and sewage, I can't really commiserate. But my water tastes better than theirs!
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