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Had a dig day in New Mexico where everything went sideways
We were working a Ancestral Pueblo site near Santa Fe and the backhoe hit a buried septic tank from the 1950s. Took us 3 days to clean up the mess and we lost a whole week of field season. Has anyone else dealt with modern contamination ruining a promising site?
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shane_fisher372mo ago
Oh man, that's brutal. I mean, three days of cleaning up a septic mess sounds like an absolute nightmare.
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uma_martinez2mo ago
@s Shane_fisher37 modern crap always finds a way to mess with the old cool stuff.
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jenkins.reese1mo ago
Uma I gotta say, you got that septic part a little mixed up. Septic systems are actually pretty old school tech, been around for ages. The modern part is the mess or the repair, not the system itself. But you're right that new stuff can wreck old setups if it's not done right. Those modern flushable wipes are a perfect example, they screw up old pipes something fierce. Just wanted to clear that up cause septic is more classic than you think.
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