Hints From Heloise
Washington Post
... tampons or hair in the toilet. - Get your septic tank pumped on a regular basis. Every three to five years is a good rule of thumb for normal systems.

Finally hooking up
Chico News & Review
Hooper said he knows of one septic tank made simply from “two pieces of culvert pipe stood end to end on a clay-dirt bottom with redwood planks on top. ...

Roanoke's Huff Lane Intermediate School under ax; Round Hill's future still ...
Roanoke Times
School officials discovered an underground septic tank at nearby Huff Lane Intermediate School, the suggested site to accommodate Round Hill students next ...

Trapped dog rescued from septic tank in Dorset
BBC News
A border collie had to be rescued by firefighters earlier after it became trapped inside a septic tank at a house in Dorset. The collie, called Lucy, ...

Got steel septic tank? If you do, expect letter, inspection
Sauk Prairie Eagle
"You go up to a dairy farmer and tell him he's got to replace his septic tank and that might send him over the edge." But Lehman said he thought giving ...