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ashe plumber
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Posted 2:33 pm, 04/06/2011
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The reason water comes out of the white pipe when it rains hard is beacuse of the drainfield, the rain water is going thru the drainfield into the septic tank and out the white pipe. The white pipe is supposed to have a cleanout plug in the top of it. Someone has removed it to allow the rainwater to escape and allow your toilets and sinks to function properly. If you were to cap the pipe the water would have no place to go and would become trapped in the pipe and none of the plumbing fixtures in your home would work. Theres probably a couple things that could be done to correct the situation, 1st the rain water could be diverted away from your drainage field, usually by ditches and gravel, so that it has somewhere else to run off . Another option might be to relocate the drainage field, although property layout and property lines might be a problem. Neither option is cheap although the ditches and gravel would be the less of the 2. If you have the tank pumped it'll help for a little while but the problem will return as soon as the tank fills and it rains hard again.
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crazy44
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Posted 10:50 pm, 04/05/2011
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Sounds like you have a major log jam. Someone must have droped some very large logs in the tank.
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nadia
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Posted 10:40 pm, 04/05/2011
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lightning they do make the white ones now
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whitehawk
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Posted 10:24 pm, 04/05/2011
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someone living in the house is smoking filtered cigarettes and/or disposing of sanitary napkins in the commode. Probably also using phosphate detergent in washing machine and dishwasher. Stop it. Get it pumped and start adding Rid-X once a month.
Check why the outtake pipe is not capped as well.
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lightningkat
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Posted 10:18 pm, 04/05/2011
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Sorry didn't proof read but it shouldn't be full instead of should be
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lightningkat
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Posted 10:17 pm, 04/05/2011
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Why is there a white pipe to your septic at ground level to begin with? The only pvc pipes should be the ones between the house and the septic and the tail lines from the septic are black unless they've changed things. You might want to get someone to check that out for you because it really does not sound right. Besides with a 3 years old system it should be full yet. and if it was it'd either be backing up into the house and come through the toilet or your whole back yard would smell of waste. Now it you have a basement with a subpump to prevent flooding that could be the white pipe you see where has water coming out of it.
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1goddess
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Posted 9:15 pm, 04/05/2011
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it also could be the drainfied....it's rained so much that the ground is flooded and there is nowhere for the water to go except back up the pipe....it's stopped up somewhere that's why it's coming back up.
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motocrossgirl
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Posted 9:09 pm, 04/05/2011
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Could be. It is only 3 years old. Maybe I should stop eating at Chili Verde! 
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1goddess
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Posted 9:06 pm, 04/05/2011
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or...it really is full of solid waste...you know what I'm talking about already..
sounds like it needs to be pumped out!
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1goddess
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Posted 9:03 pm, 04/05/2011
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it's full of ****!!!!
sorry, I just couldn't resist it...
I do hope you get it fixed soon, really I do,
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motocrossgirl
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Posted 8:59 pm, 04/05/2011
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Can anyone tell me why my septic tank shoots water out of the white pipe coming out of the ground every time it rains hard? Never a problem when it's dry. My yard is a mess today!
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