Soakaway Crates Not Allowed for Foul Drainage

Crates Not Allowed for Foul Drainage

The Environment Agency has confirmed to us that soakaway crates, tunnels, etc are NOT allowed for septic tank and sewage treatment plant soakaways.
Their position is that if the soakaway design does not comply with BS6297 2007 +A1 2008 and Section H2 Building Regulations, then it is not permissable.

Soakaway crates do not comply and are only for rain and surface water soakaways.
Don't get advice from Cowboy Traders.

Funny email snippets received this month

You just can't make them up!

"The toilet is blocked and we cannot bath the children until it is cleared."

"Will you please send a man to look at my water, it is a funny colour and not fit to drink"

"Our lavatory seat is broken in half and now is in three pieces."

"Our drain is leaking and our kitchen floor is damp. We have two children and would like a third, so please send someone round to do something about it."

"Please send a man with a big digger to finish the job and satisfy my wife.."

" My sewage plant is in the shrubbery, but my bush is really overgrown round the front and I'm worried that the air can't get to it and it will smell"

"My drains at the back are broken and my back passage has fungus growing all over it"

No news yet on the sewage treatment plant and septic tank registration date deadline

As yet, there has been no deadline set for the last date of registration for existing and new septic tanks and sewage treatment plants in England. However, the Environment Agency Wales has decided that June 31st 2012 is the deadline for Wales.
We will keep you posted.

Septic Tank Solutions: New septic tank registration application forms

Septic Tank Solutions: New septic tank and sewage treatment plant registration application forms

New septic tank registration application forms

The Environment Agency have issued revised forms which they claim are much easier to fill in for septic tank and sewage treatment plant registration.

At the moment, there is a review of the time limit for this registration, but WTE Ltd. has been told that the latest date is now going to be extended from 1st Jan 2012 to probably 1st Jan. 2013. In any case, septic tank registration is here to stay.

How to avoid paying sewerage rates

If you have a septic tank which discharges to a soakaway in your garden, you don't have to pay ANY sewage rates at all.

You used to have to have a Consent to do this from the Environment Agency, who would not give one if you were, or could be connected to mains drainage. But this has now CHANGED!

You no longer need this consent for houses up to 10 people and if your soil is fairly well drained you can install a septic tank or sewage treatment plant and soakaway and NEVER PAY SEWERAGE CHARGES AGAIN!!

This is a perfectly legal and far more sustainable option than mains sewerage.

Septic Tank Regulations - Update

Septic Tank Systems with soakaways, up to 10 persons, no longer require a consent to discharge from the Environment Agency.

Please visit our sewage treatment plant and septic tank website