Do You Still Pump Through Inspection Ports? Knock It Off!

This timesaving practice has been discredited many times, but we still hear about septic service technicians who go through the small hole to avoid the work of digging up a tank lid.
Do You Still Pump Through Inspection Ports? Knock It Off!
This photo received by Pumper magazine shows unidentified technicians pumping a tank through an inspection port. This photo was not published earlier. It is only being shown now to illustrate an ongoing issue with contractors accessing the tank through inspection ports. (File photo)

Is it standard practice to pump a septic tank through the inspection port?

Every so often I get jolted back to reality. This happened recently when I received an email with the question: Is it standard practice to pump a septic tank through the inspection port? Now, I know...

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