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[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

My last place featured 3 abandoned septic systems and 4 wells..all 
substantial concrete and all hand dug.
All that is in the ocean now.
terry l. ridder wrote:
> hello;
> 
> yesterday, thursday was spent attempting to repair the septic field.
> while digging down with the backhoe to uncover a 10 ft cast iron pipe
> that needs to be replaced because of corrosion what do i find is a 4 ft
> round roughly 4 inches thick piece of concrete that is clearly not
> suppose to be there.
> 
> some background here. a previous owner of this house removed the central
> airconditioning. the central airconditioning unit sat on a concrete pad
> between the back stairs and the tv tower. since the air conditioning
> unit was gone there was no need for the concrete pad. so instead of
> leaving it alone someone buried it it in the septic field.
> 
> why did they choose the septic field??!?!?!?!?!
> 
> did they ever consider that some future owner may just have to repair
> the septic field?!?!?!?!?!? perhaps they did and they decided to give
> the future owner a humor check and a challenge.
> 
> so after using the backhoe bucket to drop a piece of 100 lb railroad
> rail on the concrete to break it into more manageable pieces i was able
> to continue on with digging down to the cast iron pipe.
> 
>