DETAILED OCCUPATION DATA
47-4071 Septic Tank Servicers and Sewer Pipe Cleaners
Occupational Description:
Clean and repair septic tanks, sewer lines, or drains. May patch walls and partitions of tank, replace damaged drain tile, or repair breaks in underground piping.Percentiles | |||||||||
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Geography | Employment | Emp SE* | Mean | Mean SE* | 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
Central Minnesota | 90 | 15 | $16.18/hr | $1.19/hr | $11.14/hr | $15.41/hr | $17.15/hr | $18.56/hr | $19.52/hr |
Minnesota | 690 | 83 | $24.09/hr | $1.20/hr | $15.75/hr | $18.37/hr | $24.88/hr | $29.39/hr | $32.71/hr |
U S | 29,750 | 1,012 | $20.86/hr | $0.21/hr | $12.96/hr | $15.77/hr | $19.45/hr | $24.92/hr | $30.55/hr |
*SE = Standard error, a measure of the statistical reliability of the estimate. |
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Tasks for Septic Tank Servicers and Sewer Pipe Cleaners
- Rotates cleaning rods manually with turning pin.
- Communicates with supervisor and other workers, using radio telephone.
- Updates sewer maps and manhole charting.
- Services, adjusts, and makes minor repairs to equipment, machines, and attachments.
- Drives pickup trucks to haul crew, materials, and equipment.
- Taps mainline sewers to install sewer saddles.
- Requisitions tools and equipment and prepares records showing actions taken.
- Notifies coworkers to dig out ruptured line or digs out shallow sewers, using shovel.
- Breaks asphalt and other pavement, using airhammer, pick, and shovel.
- Covers repaired pipe with dirt and packs backfilled excavation, using air and gasoline tamper.
- Inspects manholes to locate stoppage of sewer line and repaired sewer line joints to ensure tightness, prior to backfilling.
- Measures distance of excavation site, using plumbers' snake, tapeline, or length of cutting head within sewer and marks trenching area.
- Cuts damaged section of pipe with cutters, removes broken section from ditch, and replaces pipe section, using pipe sleeve.
- Starts machine to feed revolving cable or rods into opening, stopping machine and changing knives to conform to pipe size.
- Withdraws cable and observes residue for evidence of mud, roots, grease, and other deposits indicating broken or clogged sewer line.
- Installs rotary knives on flexible cable, mounted on reel of machine, according to diameter of pipe to be cleaned.
- Cleans and disinfects domestic basements and other areas flooded as result of sewer stoppages.
- Cleans sewage collection points and sanitary lines and repairs catch basins, manholes, culverts, and storm drains.
- Operates sewer cleaning equipment, including power rodder, high velocity water jet, sewer flusher, bucket machine, wayne ball, and vac-all.