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"We Need Each Other"
HowardEmill
Let me explain something nearly all septic companies refuse to: there are two types of people in this world. Those who think septic systems are just "subterranean tanks for waste," and those that have had raw sewage bubbling into their property at the dead of night. I understood this distinction the difficult way in 2005—knee-deep in sludge, freezing in a Washington rainstorm, as my brothers and I aided a veteran installer fix our family's collapsed system. I was fourteen. My hands ached. My pants were ruined. But that moment, something clicked: This isn't just manual labor. It's folks' lives we're preserving.
This is the harsh truth: most septic companies just maintain tanks. They act like band-aid salesmen at a demolition convention. But Septic Solutions? They're different. It all originated back in the beginning of the 2000s when Art and his family—just kids barely tall enough to shoulder a shovel—helped install their family's septic system alongside a grizzled pro. Imagine this: three pre-teens waist-deep in Pennsylvania clay, learning how soil absorption affects drainage while their buddies played Xbox. "We did not just dig ditches," Art told me last winter, hot coffee cup in hand. "We understood how soil whispers truths. A patch of wetland vegetation here? That's Mother Nature screaming 'high water table.'"