Q: Q: I have a 4-year-old, three-bedroom house with a 3-year-old water softener that regenerates daily. The past four months my septic has backed up often from the basement drain. The tank was pumped ...

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If your home isn't hooked up to a municipal sewer system, your alternative is a septic system, which includes a container buried underground on your property that holds and treats the water and waste ...

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Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s website, epa.gov, one in five houses in ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Every toilet flush and running faucet can place an additional burden on septic systems in homes ravaged by Indiana's floods, said a Purdue University Extension agricultural ...