Installer Hunts Down Undocumented Septic Tanks

Lost tanks are no match for this innovative installer and pumper. Learn how he mastered the art of tank locating.
Installer Hunts Down Undocumented Septic Tanks
Thomas H. Erb & Sons, Inc. has been solving Pennsylvania homeowners’ septic issues for 43 years. Here, president Ray Erb (right) and his son, vice president Tom Erb, are shown at a work site with their workhorse Case 580E backhoe. (Photos by K. Scott Kreider)

Inspecting onsite systems is not for the fainthearted, as Ray Erb of Thomas H. Erb & Sons in Lititz, Pa., can attest. When the new owners of a 1970s campground hired him to evaluate the patchwork septic systems, Erb found six of them instead of three, and one of those was being...

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