Leach line leak need help

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Mike1983

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Hi all,
Hoping for some advice that might save us some unnecessary repairs and money!
We are new to septic as of 2 years ago. The system is roughly 10 years old. We noticed water coming out of one of the 4 leach lines about a month ago, so we had our 1000 gallon take pumped. shortly after maybe a week water was still coming up from the same spot.
It is either the 2nd or 3rd leach line.
The company that pumped it out came back located the distribution box (charged me $250) and said they recommended water jetting it for $1250. The alternative and what they recommend if the water jetting doesn’t work was to put some sort of serious bacteria treatment ($6500)in to possibly re open the maybe clogged leach line.
I kind of expected an expert to look at the clues and maybe have a better guess as the the cause then they did. The prices also seemed quite high, but I don’t have much to go off of.
I thought about pouring some water into the DB to see if all lines were taking water or if some were blocked?
I attached a couple photos hopefully they show up and help.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks, Mike
 

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Sounds like crazy high prices to me.

Get somebody else out there, ask your neighbors for who they have been dealing with.
 
your leach line isn't collapsed is it? Did they check for that? Did they run a drip test to make sure they were draining properly at the correct intervals? Did they suggest abandoning the problem leach line and redirecting it? Maybe that part of the field failed. I was suggest getting a septic inspecting company out there rather than someone who pumps tanks or unclogs drains. Septic is nothing to play around with.
 

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