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With blue-gloved hands, cesspool professional Salvatore Motta fed an endoscopic camera through the basement house trap of a ranch-style home in Smithtown.
The cesspool appeared original to the house, maybe built of block, he said — the kind he would liken to "little time bombs in the ground."
To licensed real estate salesperson Monique Serena, a Woodbury-based agent for Keller Williams Points North, an inspection like this is the reason she insists prospective homebuyers have cesspools scoped before signing contracts. Cesspool and septic systems are not part of a standard home inspection, she said — and if overlooked, the stakes are high.
A cesspool on the edge of collapse is a safety risk to anyone on the property. A fall into a collapsed cesspool can be fatal, whether because of phy
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