Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry vowed last fall to make secure lids the standard for septic tanks at parks throughout the city after 3-year-old Amari Harley died inside a tank with an unsecured lid ...

A Jacksonville Sheriff's Office investigation says septic tanks at Bruce Park repeatedly had problems with protective lids in the months leading up to the accidental death of Amari Harley in a ...

Two days after Amari’s death, the tank lids in Bruce Park were replaced with concrete. Curry said Forestview is now the only remaining public park with a rubber septic tank lid.

The mayor added that as the city standardizes these septic tank lids, his staff will look for the safest materials and mechanisms available, which may include locks or concrete.

Modern septic systems have an 8-inch plastic pipe that rises from the tank to a few inches above grade. The cap can be removed and the system flushed and drained.

At Carvill Park in the Norwood area of northwest Jacksonville, just southwest of Interstate 95 and Lem Turner Road, we saw concrete lids that appeared to have been recently cemented. It was clear ...

A septic tank should be pumped regularly, or else it can cause your home’s entire wastewater system to back up. However, the septic tank can be difficult to spot if you don’t know where it was ...

The concrete septic tank is built underground with bricks, sand, cement, iron-bars and wire mesh and has a concrete slab on top with some openings, like manholes. On the other hand, the plastic ...