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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dennishoddy" data-source="post: 4099050" data-attributes="member: 5412">Our septic system hadn't been pumped for 26 years. We started backing up and called a pumper. He said there was a foot of sludge in the bottom and he would get it next time, which I called BS on and asked if there was a discount. (teen guy on a friday night). No discount, so had him pump the sludge and he was pissed. What that sludge is composed of is the dirt from your laundry and other things that won't decompose with bacterial treatments. A month later, it backed up again and we got the OK DEQ guy out there to inspect and it was plugged. He spent most of the afternoon checking the perk on the soil and gave us a map of where the new laterals should be placed. Contractor came out told us how he was going to put out the laterals. Gave him the map the DEQ gave us and told him not to put one on the east side of the yard as it was clay and would not perk. He puffed up and asked me if I thought he didn't know what he was doing after xxxx number of years of putting in septic systems. My reply was to drag up his shat and get the fawk off my property. Hired another guy that looked at the map the DEQ gave me and all is good. The need to pump or not pump is determined on the ability of the soil to absorb what is put into it. Nobody can say what is best for someone's location unless it has been perked to see what it can absorb.</blockquote>