I have a pump system for my house. The house sits on a hill overlooking a river, which is approximately 150' below the house. Environmental services wouldn't allow the drain field to be placed behind the house because of the proximity to the river (downhill). So, we have two tanks: everything flows into the first tank and the solids remain there; liquids drain into the second tank. The second tank has a pump that pushes the liquids up into the drain field. A pump system is definitely not my preferred choice, but to place the house where we wanted it, we went for it. We've had some occasional issues - the most annoying of which was the pipes separating inside the liquid tank, so the water wasn't being pumped out. I was able to remedy it myself, but that's not something everyone is willing to do! LOL! The other problem has been with power outages. After Hurricane Helene we were without power for 10 days, so I had to "hot wire" the pump to our generator. We have a 6-bedroom system, so it was pretty pricey - I think about $18k back in 2017. Had we been able to do a standard system I imagine it would have been about 1/2 the cost. I'd be afraid to know what it would cost today...

Hi. Not personally, but I’ll ask my network.

Hi Everyone, sorry for the way I disappeared this morning. My Internet connection dropped and it turns out there's a Spectrum outage in my area. My Starlink backup didn't come online and I had no bars on my phone. Looking forward to future calls.

Ian, I'll reach out. Thanks

No way! The beautiful looking field with the small wet area?

How much are you paying for soil studies? I’d be curious to hear about this process in NC. Here in SC rarely ever hear of anyone using a private engineer unless there are issues with the standard Perc test done by the state environmental services and an engineered system is required. But it could just be that I’m uninformed!