Today is the day of sweet victory. I see the truck outside, and they are going to pump away!
I have generally very good neighbors whom I get along with very well, with one exception. Three doors down and across the street from me is a family of turd-burglers and that has caused some grief in the past. Going back almost 15 years, two of the kids from that family got caught in my motorhome one day vandalizing it. the cops wrote up the report, and it was sent to the county PA, but I agreed not to prosecute if they paid the cost of renovation back to original condition, and had the kids apologize. Maybe it was a mistake.
FF to a year ago, and they started having trouble with their anaerobic septic system. I'm sort of downwind to them so once in a while I get a whiff when I'm working outside on cars, or in my hot tub at night. He timed his sprinkler to only run from 1am to 4am.
I had a discussion with the owner about it and he said there was nothing wrong. It got worse, another neighbor complained so I went over and took a sample of his discharge water when the septic sprinkler was running from the edge of the street. I asked once again that he have it pumped, and have the effluent lines cleaned and repaired. He refused. The neighbor next to me talked to him because they have a slightly better rapport. He still blew it off. I sent the sample to a lab, and the report to the district water control authority. They came out last week and sampled as well and then cited him with a nice penalty. If he didn't clean it up within 72 hours, they were going to shut down his septic, and he wouldn't be able to live there.
Well, the guy pushed it to the last second, but the truck is out there now, and it's being pumped. I presume they are going to flush it, and then try again. It pains me to have to go to this extreme but I put up with it for almost a year with polite requests, however some neighbors only respond to actions from the govt, rather than being a good neighbor. Looks like what would have cost him a few hundred last year is going to be quite a bit more expensive now, including the cost of the violation for discharging raw waste.
Of course - he blames me. He's the victim here. lol
I have generally very good neighbors whom I get along with very well, with one exception. Three doors down and across the street from me is a family of turd-burglers and that has caused some grief in the past. Going back almost 15 years, two of the kids from that family got caught in my motorhome one day vandalizing it. the cops wrote up the report, and it was sent to the county PA, but I agreed not to prosecute if they paid the cost of renovation back to original condition, and had the kids apologize. Maybe it was a mistake.
FF to a year ago, and they started having trouble with their anaerobic septic system. I'm sort of downwind to them so once in a while I get a whiff when I'm working outside on cars, or in my hot tub at night. He timed his sprinkler to only run from 1am to 4am.
I had a discussion with the owner about it and he said there was nothing wrong. It got worse, another neighbor complained so I went over and took a sample of his discharge water when the septic sprinkler was running from the edge of the street. I asked once again that he have it pumped, and have the effluent lines cleaned and repaired. He refused. The neighbor next to me talked to him because they have a slightly better rapport. He still blew it off. I sent the sample to a lab, and the report to the district water control authority. They came out last week and sampled as well and then cited him with a nice penalty. If he didn't clean it up within 72 hours, they were going to shut down his septic, and he wouldn't be able to live there.
Well, the guy pushed it to the last second, but the truck is out there now, and it's being pumped. I presume they are going to flush it, and then try again. It pains me to have to go to this extreme but I put up with it for almost a year with polite requests, however some neighbors only respond to actions from the govt, rather than being a good neighbor. Looks like what would have cost him a few hundred last year is going to be quite a bit more expensive now, including the cost of the violation for discharging raw waste.
Of course - he blames me. He's the victim here. lol
It was all I could do to fix it myself and finally had to go govt on his butt. What a shame. I guess I could have been a real jackbanana and sued him in civil court. Meh - I wish it didn't have to be so, but property rights are pretty important in my state. Either that, or we could just go over and demolish his place and see what he does about it.
Hopefully, the situation will just go down the drain.
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