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vanity: possible sewage line break in my Mom's yard: how do I tell?
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| 05/19/2010
| Racebannon
Posted on 05/19/2010 3:07:01 PM PDT by RaceBannon
My Mom's yard has a spot where grass is dying.
I noticed birds feeding there a lot in the last month, it is a mostly round patch, 10 feet across
I tried to use a gerden weasel on it today and huge hunks of soil came up with the grass, easily broken up, stillmoist, odorless
no apparent moles, voles, or grubs at this spot
TOPICS: Gardening; Science; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: grass; leechfield; sewage; yard
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To: Grunthor
yes, and that is why I doubted it mostly! :)
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posted on
05/19/2010 3:16:46 PM PDT
by
RaceBannon
(RON PAUL: THE PARTY OF TRUTHERS, TRAITORS AND UFO CHASERS!!!)
To: RaceBannon
Taste is the only real way to be sure.
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posted on
05/19/2010 3:17:33 PM PDT
by
SJSAMPLE
To: Star Traveler; RaceBannon
Well, the best way I know how to do it and pretty cheap, too ... is to get your shovel out dig it up in that spot.Beat me to it! If you get down 18"-24" and the soil is or isn't significantly moister, you'll have an answer.
Besides, if it was a small sewage leak , it'd make the grass greener, not kill it off. If it were a large sewage leak, you'd know it.
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posted on
05/19/2010 3:21:52 PM PDT
by
digger48
To: SJSAMPLE
But don’t step in it. That would be nasty.
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posted on
05/19/2010 3:23:31 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: RaceBannon
Call the gas company now. Yhe photo looks like a potential natural gas leak. Don’t take any chances, they will now and for free!!!!!red
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posted on
05/19/2010 3:24:12 PM PDT
by
rednek
("Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.")
To: digger48
My grass is a jungle over my drainfield. I mow it twice as often as I mow the rest of the yard.
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posted on
05/19/2010 3:25:05 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: rednek
woops - not your photo. call the gas company anyway. 1st sign of a gas leak is dead vegetation......red
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posted on
05/19/2010 3:26:28 PM PDT
by
rednek
("Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.")
To: rednek
no gas in the area
but the grubs thing, what we had 2 years ago was like a central spot of dead, with a wagon wheel arc of dead, not a large patch
however, I am off to the yard people tomorrow, treat it as grubs anyways since that is what was diagnosed last time, they may be back
I guess the birds feeding should have been my first warnig it was bugs of some kind!
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posted on
05/19/2010 3:30:14 PM PDT
by
RaceBannon
(RON PAUL: THE PARTY OF TRUTHERS, TRAITORS AND UFO CHASERS!!!)
To: raybbr
were in rochester ny (cold) and they were done in early may
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posted on
05/19/2010 3:32:45 PM PDT
by
Revelation 911
(How many 100's of 1000's of our servicemen died so we would never bow to a king?" -freeper pnh102)
To: RaceBannon
Do you have a dog? It can also be caused from too much fertilizer there or rain water puddling there. Grubs, tree roots.
To: RaceBannon
To: cripplecreek
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posted on
05/19/2010 3:35:33 PM PDT
by
digger48
To: RaceBannon
It does sound a lot like grubs (June Bug). Their grub stage is three years long and they are down there eating the roots of the grass all that time. Grab the brown grass and if you can pull the grass out of the ground in the form of a brown sod you just may have grubs.
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posted on
05/19/2010 3:35:36 PM PDT
by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: RaceBannon
Oh come on... No one is THAT crazy....
To: cripplecreek
Sounds like the old Cheech and Chong skit.
“Smells like dog chit.
Feels like dog chit.
Ooooohhhhhh. Taste like dog chit.
Good thing you no step in it.”
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posted on
05/19/2010 3:54:50 PM PDT
by
SJSAMPLE
To: RaceBannon
Lot’s of birds and a round brown spot. You’ve got bugs. Probably cinch bugs.
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posted on
05/19/2010 3:55:58 PM PDT
by
SampleMan
(No one should die on a gov. waiting list., or go broke because the gov. has dictated their salary.)
To: RaceBannon
Sewage effluent will usually always have a strong odor. Usually the ground will be spongy with overgrown vegetation before sewage in a leachline starts surfacing.
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posted on
05/19/2010 3:58:40 PM PDT
by
willk
To: RaceBannon
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posted on
05/19/2010 3:59:02 PM PDT
by
rsobin
To: RaceBannon
I hope you have better luck with the “blue mulch/seed” stuff than I have. I’ve never been able to get that stuff to take hold.
Sounds like grubs.
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posted on
05/19/2010 4:03:11 PM PDT
by
2111USMC
To: RaceBannon
I knew from the instant I saw this in “Latest Posts” that this would be the kind of thread that makes FR fun.
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posted on
05/19/2010 4:03:13 PM PDT
by
Cyber Liberty
(Build a man a fire; he'll be warm for a night. Set a man on fire; he'll be warm the rest of his life)
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