Called Michigan Septic to replace an aging septic tank. 6 hours and done, even with all of the issues that popped up, turns out that my fears of the old tank being near end of life were well warranted, and it did throw a few curves, being located immediately adjacent to the house ( we knew it was nowhere near the current 10 foot code) it had the bare minimum runoff, and had its drain field essentially adjacent to the tank,
Michigan Septic was able to deal with all of those issues, still meet their quote, and left the property looking better than when they showed up ( yeah the grass will take a few weeks to close out the project…)