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My parents are trying to sale their house and the person they bought the house from did not disclose to them that the pipe going to the leach field does not flow into the ground it comes out of the side of a hill and the water then flows to the ground into a leach field, we are trying to figure out if this will have to fixed. The previous owners told the realestate agent my parents are using to sale their house, five years after the house was purchased. We are in Elwood, Nebraska and not in city limits.

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Amantha,
The only party competent to answer this question is your parents County Health Department.  Septic systems fall under their jurisdiction. It may be that the configuration of the septic system was perfectly legal when it as built or it may be that there wasn't even a law about it then.  I don't have the information necessary to make a judgment on that.  Also, of course, I don't know if it has to be changed now but I do know that once you bring it to the county's attention, you will have to do whatever they say.
I hope this helps you.

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