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 ...

There are over 500,000 of them in the metro area, although we aren’t really sure how to take care of them or even how they even work. But when they stop working, hold your nose and run for cover. Here ...

When my family and I moved to Sonoma County, we were thrust into an unfamiliar world of septic systems. Coming from Oakland, where replacing sewer lines was a costly but simple affair, the septic ...