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Not the most glamorous subject, however.....
have just bought a house and for historic reasons it has the septic tank just outside the back door which isnt great. However we have discovered that we can bypass the septic tank and connect directly into the mains sewage which has been put into the village recently - hurrah!
Once I've done the work / had it done for me and the Septic tank is no longer in use am I obliged to take it out, make it safe, cap it off etc? I have a load of concrete rubble and if I could fill it up with the rubble and then concrete the top it would kill two birds with one stone. Would this contravene any kind of environmental/building law?
Cheers
Just fill it with shit.
Use it as your secret underground lair.
Use it as your secret underground lair
Scat cave!
tewit
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Use it as your secret underground lair.
Then change your username to Joseph Shitzel.
Scat cave!
Total win!
Fill in with Listerine !!
Had to Google scat. Wish I hadn't.
I think you need to contact the local water/sewerage company as they will want to charge you to use their sewers/waste disposal. Â I'd do this now rather than let them discover it later.
Had to Google scat.
Is that a new online analysis service?
I take it as read that you have arranged with the sewerage producer to connect into their network.
Your water rates will go up a bit.
Filling the redundant tank with concrete rubble from the same property is fine. Technically you’d need permission to import waste fill to site.
Make sure you break the bottom of the old tank through to allow water to drain, otherwise you may have a slightly smelly pond / boggy patch for the rest of time.
We filled in an old tank with building rubble - saved a fortune in grab lorries.
I was staying in a cottage in the Lakes last week where the lavatory had a notice to say they had a sceptic tank. I think they were doubting where their shit went.
Thanks all, that was what I wanting to hear. We are already paying the higher rate to Yorkshire Water as our Septic Tank drains to the main sewer rather than a soak away, they have a scheme in place whereby because we are paying for full sewerage but not using it they will empty the Septic tank for free once a year. However they don't seem to advertise this.