| 1. | Is there something wrong with the leaching field, which is 20 years old?
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| 2. | There is icky stuff in the yard over the leaching field, and it stinks.
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| 3. | A . The leaching field is saturated and slow-draining.
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| 4. | A septic tank is a separate container, with pipes leading to a specific leaching field.
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| 5. | More important, I have discovered little subtle depressions in the lawn over the leaching field.
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| 6. | The liquid, or effluent, gets spread out in an underground leaching field via perforated pipes.
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| 7. | And with a properly-working septic you will have a fairly clear effluent going into the leaching field.
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| 8. | The 60-minute percolation rate requires twice as big a leaching field as the 30-minute percolation rate, he said.
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| 9. | Q . I just moved into a house that has a septic system, with the usual septic tank and leaching field.
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| 10. | The leaching field generally consists of perforated pipe resting on gravel-filled beds that allow water to drain into the underlying soil.
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