Wednesday, June 5, 2019

Where are your roots?

Ok, the title of this is a bit misleading.. hope you forgive me on that one.

So the home owners on our street back in the mid/late eighties had the option to either have city sewer installed or to use a septic tank and drain field.  They chose to stick with septic tanks and drain fields - which millions of people still use without significant problems for many years.  Unfortunately, the time is up on our drain field - we started to get backups on occasion.  Being that our drain field sits (sat) between 2 good sized oak trees - it comes as no surprise that the septic people say we have root issues as the root of our issues :)  I'm still hoping to find someone that does drain field hydro-jetting and that it takes care of our issues.




My main fear at the moment is that we will end up killing the other oak out front.  I'll be very bummed if that happens.  If we get the drain field hydro-jetted, I think the tree will be ok. If we have to replace the drain field I don't see anyway of avoiding killing it.  It is within a couple feet of the driveway on one side and the drain field lines start about 10' off the other side.   I'm partly tempted to go ahead and plant another shade tree now but it will just cause us (or someone) the same issues later.  

I find the verse below quite true but I'm often unsuccessful at applying it.

- Scott


Matthew 6:34 New International Version (NIV)


34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

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