I could see the wetness gathering around my sewage drain field, and since it hadn’t rained in a week, I knew it wasn’t just regular wetness.
There was a problem with my sewage system. I couldn’t dig up the yard or the drain field, so I called the local plumbing company. I had to have a plumber come to the house and repair the pipes that lead into the sewage drain field. I was sure that before we could anyone to the house, we were going to have the smell of backup in the house, but I was wrong. Within an hour, there was a plumber at the house. He inspected the sewage drain field to determine if it was a burst pipe or something else going on. The plumber place a long tube into the pipe. It had a camera that had its own lighting on the end of the tube. He was looking at a screen that was attached to the tube. He got about twenty-five feet in when he saw the break in the pipe. The plumber said it was going to be an easy fix, unless he found more breaks. Lucky for us, there was only one broken pipe, but it was making a huge mess. The plumber was able to push a sleeve into the pipe and attach it where the pipe was broken. It took him a while to attach the sleeve, because he also had to clean the area before attaching the sleeve. By the time the plumber was done with the repair, he had been at the house for almost two hours. I knew the bill could have been a lot worse, but I still grumbled when the plumber handed it to me.