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Orlando Godinez, top center, with technician Alex Aguilar-Murillo, left, lead technician John Ibarra, right, and father Pedro Godinez on a job site in Austin, Texas. They are shown with a Cat excavator. (Photos by Ethan Rocke)
Septic system installers who run across difficult excavation conditions will sympathize with what Orlando Godinez routinely faces as the owner of Godinez Septics in Austin, Texas.
About a third of the time, Godinez and his employees install systems in solid rock, either granite,...