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   DaveMason2 | Mar 01, 2004 10:21pm | #1

    I would guess that they are the clean outs that stick out of the ground. Just a guess though. I'm sure someone will come along with a definate answer.

                                                                                                          Dave

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   BossHog | Mar 01, 2004 11:43pm | #2

   Maybe that's where you put the garden in, and plant turnips.

   (Sorry - Couldn't resist)

   The grass is always greener over the septic tank [Erma Bombeck]

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   Danusan11 | Mar 02, 2004 03:44am | #3

   Their clean outs, which usually occur from the tank to the house. Different muncipalities will have code requirements that will dictate, that if certain length from house to tank is x a clean out is required x amount of feet.

   These shouldn't occur in field, as effluent from tank to field is supposed to be just gray water.

   However I have seen in some of the hybrid systems they are vented.

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   Quickstep | Mar 02, 2004 04:46pm | #5

   These are actually at the end of the field tubing.

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   DanH | Mar 02, 2004 06:25pm | #6

   There are various schemes. I've seen vents at the ends of the laterals, or simply capped "cleanouts". I think they're really just inspection ports, plus they serve to mark the location of the laterals so they don't get damaged or driven over.

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   johnnyd | Mar 02, 2004 07:10pm | #7

   What I was going to say. I might add that mine is built with a holding tank that pumps (called "dosing") the effluent into 5 laterals, using the first one in line until it's used up (if that ever even happens) and so on down the laterals.  So there's an inspection port at the far end of each lateral so that you can tell which one is active.

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   r_ignacki | Mar 02, 2004 03:53am | #4

   Those "turn ups", are a courtesy, just the installer being a nice guy.

   Saves you from renting a porta-potty, just unscrew and go.

   You'll notice differant size pipes sticking up, right,? well , theres a reason....

    three inch for number one, four inch for number two.

   When the project is compleat, just cut these below grade and cap.
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   DavidThomas | Mar 02, 2004 11:51pm | #8

   "Saves you from renting a porta-potty, just unscrew and go."

   I know you're joking, but it got me to thinking.  If one made a practice of getting the septic in first (good so the landscaping can have a chance to recover), the GC could have a seat/funnel mount to the 4" stand-pipe on the tank (not the leach field!).  That and a little garden shed would save the guys from running into town to McDs which always seems to take an hour instead of 15 minutes.

   And there'd be nothing to pump at the end.  Just hose it off and pack it up.David Thomas   Overlooking Cook Inlet in Kenai, Alaska

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   DanH | Mar 02, 2004 11:56pm | #9

   Hey, that's a good idea -- a little shed with a hole under it. Maybe you should patent that!

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   djohan | Mar 05, 2004 03:07am | #10

   In my area (california) they are required at the end of each field run.  They are inspection ports and are there so you can tell if your field is saturated (standing water at each inspection port.)  Most of the time, the only information they give is that the guy who dug your field didn't do it as level or sloped as it was supposed to be and one of the arms fills way before the one next to it, and not usually in order from the septic tank like they are supposed to be.

   Lots of homeowners around here cut them off either level with the ground or below it.  I like to take a look down my inspection ports every so often, so I didn't bury mine.

   Dennis