Septic Tank

The Harpers Later in the 2004-2005 season, the Harper family's makeover in Lake City, Ga. aired, showing a modest home with septic-tank issues replaced by a 5,300-square-footer resembling an English castle. ❋ Dawn Wotapka (2010)

This 5,300-square-foot home resembling an English castle replaced the Harper's original modest home that had septic-tank problems. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The rest of the table talk concerned a truck with a bad power cell, a roof-repair job still in progress, and a looming septic-tank crisis. ❋ Unknown (2005)

After Dad had been fired from Hood's Car Wash and before he took the civil service job, he'd invested in Uncle Jake's new business and worked the summer pouring cement into iron septic-tank forms. ❋ Barbara Robinette Moss (2001)

The septic-tank business was Uncle Jake's latest moneymaking adventure. ❋ Barbara Robinette Moss (2001)

Uncle Jake had told us that the fire ran through the house quickly and that he had had time to grab only a couple of personal belongings: a change of clothes and the “kitty,” a can filled with quarters, Kennedy halves, bills and checks from the septic-tank business. ❋ Barbara Robinette Moss (2001)

We walked around the remains of the house to the backyard, where rows of metal septic-tank forms waited to be poured with cement and the tire swing still dangled from a tattered rope. ❋ Barbara Robinette Moss (2001)

With millions of dollars and the reputation of Florida archaeology on the line, I pushed the septic-tank issue. ❋ Unknown (1999)

In February James Randi, a.k.a. the Amazing Randi, a professional debunker of pseudo-science, notified his 9,000 e-mail list subscribers that his money was on the septic-tank drain field. ❋ Unknown (1999)

They cite consultations with septic-tank experts who told them the Miami Circle did not resemble any septic-tank system they had ever seen. ❋ Unknown (1999)

Second, find and interview people involved in construction of the apartments or people who might have lived in them prior to 1970, when the septic-tank system was abandoned and the apartments were hooked up to Miami's public sewage system. ❋ Unknown (1999)

He spoiled everything; yet he would have known how to deal with you had you brought to him a commercial transaction -- the rest of his surfaces were covered in a thick, leathery coat, very valuable in a septic-tank where air and light must be excluded .... ❋ Will Levington Comfort (1905)