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Tom Collins of Collins Excavating Grading uses a Kobelco SK115 RDZ tracked excavator with tooth bucket to chisel plow a 22-by-58-foot area for the mound. (Photos by Josh Lacko)
Finding a 5-foot-diameter hole in his lakefront lot in Eagle River, Wisconsin, confirmed the location of the homeowner’s 1960s steel septic tank.
“The tank lid had collapsed, and the dry well was in groundwater and failing,” says Rick Neis, owner of Muskyland Plumbing in...