| Tom,
Thanks for your response. Our problem is that the prev owners were running the basement bathroom sink and shower into the ground and not the septic tank. We live in Pa and that is a law that this gray water must go to a septic tank. Before we bought the house, because the prev owner disclosed they had gray water in the spring when it rained by an outside wall, we ordered a septic inspection before buying the home. The septic inspector said the gray water problem was from the basement bathroom sink and shower not being connected to the septic tank. He did a dye test and said everything else was hooked up fine and he pumped the septic tank and checked the drain field and said all looked good. The prev owner paid a plumber to put in a pump in the basement floor and connect the shower and sink in the basement bathroom to the septic tank. But that did not take care of the gray water outside the house just below a wall where the septic tank is located. According to the septic tank inspector all should be fine. Everything is hooked up to the septic tank. As a matter of fact, we don't use the basement bathroom at all yet because we are redoing it first. So we don't use that sink and shower at all. So where is the gray water coming from. Did the septic inspector miss something. Would you think that there is a leak in out tank? Or is our neighbor running gray water into the ground. He lives up a hill from us? We are to collect a water sample of the little trickle coming out our outside wall and check for detergents and fecal coliform. Also if something is wrong with our septic system, do we have a leg to stand on. We ordered a test prior to buying the house, and according to the septic inspector, he told us what the problem was and the prev owner paid to fix this and we bought the house. Never would we buy a house with a septic tank and not have an inspection done first. But now if there is another problem with our septic tank that they didn't see, are we stuck paying for the repair. Does the septic inspector have any responsibility towards this? We were told by someone that in Pa the home buyer doesn't have a leg to stand on. Then why pay for something to be checked, and if the person you pay to check it makes a mistake, they have no liability towards the repair. So any advise you have I would appreciate. We are just getting a water testing done of the small water trickle they call gray water. By the way, it has an oder and a film. Someone said maybe we have an underground spring, and from the years of the prev owner running the bathroom sink and shower water into the ground, that it will take time for this oder to go away. But it is wet all the time by the wall of the house in one spot and it stinks. It is just a small area but it never drys up. You can actually see a tiny trickle of water coming out of this outside wall. I know it is hard to explain this, but I hope you see what I am saying. Thanks for any advice. | 
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