A River Runs Through It

Not the movie, my yard.

Our septic problem was that we had a MASSIVE amount of water, snow, slush and ice surrounding the pump tank that holds the liquid overflow from the septic tank, then pumps it up to the leach field. What happened is that this massive amount of water was getting into the tank and the pump was overwhelmed. Not only did this tank fill with nearly a thousand gallons of water, but the pump pumped as much as it could up into our leach field until it was completely saturated and the vent pipe was actually draining the water back into the tank. There was so much water that when we lifted the lid, it didn't even smell. That fluid should smell like sewage and be murky, gray/brown. It was clean. No smell, no color. Completely diluted because of the massive amount of water. The lid was under almost a foot and a half of water. Usually, even after a super heavy rain, the lid is 6" ABOVE water. In addition, the area behind my garage was flooded, and the flooded water was actually running right through my carport and under my truck that's parked next to the carport. It took the excavator half a day of pushing snow/ice to create a drain path from the water to the brook. What amazed me was that after he did this, instead of just draining standing water, it actually became a path for running water of endless supply. There's an endless supply of melting snow above us. Attached are pics that I took this afternoon. The first pic is a shot of the trench he made to drain the water. The second shot is a closeup of how much water is running continuously. I took these pics many hours after the work was done.