Out digging the garden there and can hear water sloshing under ground when i put my spade in. Google couldn't help. I get an expensive feeling about this. please reassure this somewhat normal and I've just not come across it before
Nooooooo. We are on septic tanks and soakaways here. The tanks are not in the garden but at the edge of the field opposite. Last weekend i had a go at digging a hole for a buddleja over there but the sloshing noise made me stop. Now im worried. What to do now?
How do i check a watermain? The water had to be turned off earlier this year and i think the main was about a quarter mile away at the start of the drive. Should i call the water board?
I don't know about observation tanks, the system here dates from 1960. We can lift manhole covers to see if it's backing up and another over the tank to see if there's a flow in or if it's full but not draining away
Is this water in the area of the septic tank or the pipe to it?
We find a set of drain rods are essential for living with a septic tank
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no, that's not normal unless you live in a bog.
If that's new, check your water and drainage pipes
In the sticks near Peterborough
Last time we heard bubbling from underground it was coming from a ruptured gas main. Hope it is not that. As said check your water main.
Nooooooo. We are on septic tanks and soakaways here. The tanks are not in the garden but at the edge of the field opposite. Last weekend i had a go at digging a hole for a buddleja over there but the sloshing noise made me stop. Now im worried. What to do now?
and the pipe that leads to the septic tank? Is the system Ok not blocked and backing up somewhere.
In the sticks near Peterborough
How do i check a watermain? The water had to be turned off earlier this year and i think the main was about a quarter mile away at the start of the drive. Should i call the water board?
I looked in the observation tank and it was clear. Dont know what else to do. Only been here since Christmas and this is my first tank
I don't know about observation tanks, the system here dates from 1960. We can lift manhole covers to see if it's backing up and another over the tank to see if there's a flow in or if it's full but not draining away
Is this water in the area of the septic tank or the pipe to it?
We find a set of drain rods are essential for living with a septic tank
In the sticks near Peterborough
If the pipe to the septic tank is blocked, wouldn't there be a bit of a whiff?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
probably Dove. though whiff isn't something we've had a problem with.
In the sticks near Peterborough
If you can hear water bubbling then it must be moving. If the pipes to the Septic tank are blocked then there would be no movement surely?
Is the noise coming from between the outflow on the house and the Septic tank?