We’ve received some questions recently and we thought it might be a good idea to share one of them today:
(Q) Our house and cesspool were built in 1967 and we’ve had it pumped out every 18months since the house was built. We have a vegetable garden that is about 6 years old and we water it twice a day. A few weeks ago we noticed there was standing water around the lid of the cesspool and it doesn’t seem to be going away. What can we do?
We needed to pump out the cesspool to determine if there was anything visible or out of the ordinary. After pumping we saw there was no history of high water levels but there was a significant coating of slime on the bricks all the way to the bottom.
(A) We have two options for you. Option 1 is to do a high pressure washdown and chemical treatment of the brick surface. The current treatment calls for a three step procedure. Step 1: Use a high pressure spraying wand to reduce the amount of slime and grease coating the brick surface. Step 2: Wait two weeks to allow the water to return to the cesspool and put caustic soda into the water. This dissolves a majority of the slime and grease inside the holes between the bricks and begins to enter into the crushed stone surrounding the cesspool. Step 3: After another two weeks we introduce a robust chemical into the water which completes the cleaning of the brick surface, the holes between the bricks and finally the crushed stone surrounding it. Option 2 is a like kind replacement of the cesspool.
We will be adding information like this in future posts.
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