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Allow me to tell you something most septic companies won't: there are two types of people in this life. Those who think septic systems are merely "underground boxes for waste," and those that have had raw sewage gurgling into their property at 2 AM. I understood this difference the difficult way in 2005knee-deep in muck, shivering in a Washington rainstorm, as my siblings and I aided a veteran installer fix our family's failed system. I was a teenager. My hands blistered. My clothes were ruined. But that night, something changed: This ain't just digging. It's folks' lives that we're protecting. This is the harsh truth: the majority of septic companies just maintain tanks. They're like quick-fix salesmen at a demolition convention. But Septic Solutions? They are special. It all started back in the early 2000s when Art and his brothersjust kids barely tall enough to carry a shovelaided install their family's septic system alongside a weathered pro. Imagine this: three kids buried in Pennsylvania clay, learning how soil absorption affects drainage while their buddies played Xbox. "We never just dig holes," Art told me last winter, hot coffee cup in hand. "We learned how soil whispers mysteries. A patch of wetland vegetation here? That's Mother Nature yelling 'high water table.'" https://www.flickr.com/people/203909751@N04/
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