Lifted sewer cap and see water pooling....

[David Nasser]

2005 Built residence on slab....
Everything checked out good....opened
the steel cap labled (Sewer) in the garage. I seen the
ABS pipe capped.....but the surrounding are
was full of water.....Is this a sign of a problem?

David

[Brian A. MacNeish]

Originally Posted by dnasser

2005 Built residence on slab....
Everything checked out good....opened
the steel cap labled (Sewer) in the garage. I seen the
ABS pipe capped.....but the surrounding are
was full of water.....Is this a sign of a problem?

Was there sewage odour from the water? Or no discernible odour?

No discernible odour........where was the water service line....buried along side the serwer line? could there be a leak from it?

If no odour/leakage, the water table would appear to be extremely high. What about grading around the place....flat, inward sloping, the house on a pad raised from the surrounding land?

I have seen a spring appear under a slab about 6-7 months after it was was poured during a very dry summer. When the fall rains came, the water tables raised and came up through cracks/penetrations of the slab.

[Robert J. OConnor]

The cover says sewer, but what is that in the pit? Cleanout plug ... or maybe something else? Hard to see.