Our lovely little side yard isn't so lovely these days. It all started two weeks ago when Andrew went outside one Saturday morning and noticed that three of our iron access hole covers had been stolen during the night. We were quite alarmed that someone had come over our fence (granted, it's a measly little fence and not to hard to get over, but still!) during the night and pried off several heavy pieces of iron. The thief is likely selling them for their value in metal. We immediately called our landlord to let him know, and he had replacement concrete covers made.
At the time, we also mentioned to him that we'd noticed a sewer-ish smell sometimes in our guest bathroom. We were concerned that our septic tank was filling up and needed to be emptied.
The following week, two more drain covers were stolen. This time the access holes were informative - the repairmen who came to look at where the theft had occurred realized that all three of our septic tanks were completely empty! So while we do certainly have a problem with drainage from our guest bathroom, a full septic tank is not the issue. No waste is even making it to the tank, but is draining somewhere between the bathroom and the tanks, and likely has been for years and years. Yuck.
So, thanks to the thief who took away the covers and helped us figure out that we have a rather serious problem, we now have workers coming into our yard regularly. Since the area in which they are working is a rectangular hole about ten feet long by three feet wide that has nicely squared corners, it looks a whole lot more like a rather deep grave than anything else. Hopefully this is part of their plan to fix things and not a graveyard for the tenants who are creating all this work! Or maybe they plan to catch the thief...
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