Blocked drains/ septic tanks/wet weather

[eggsarascal]

I was talking to the guys at the local sewage processing plant, the system is way out of date with no real upgrading going on. It was built in the 60s with a projected increase in local population wildly miscalculated. So all the other infrastructure was improved upon as development took place...except the sewage works!!! We are now 40odd years on, antiquated systems, poor water management, filled in ditches with a hitch-pitch of blocked piping, acres of hard standing and built over water/flood meadows. Of course housing is going to get flooded out.

 

Was that Stowmarket sewage works Andy ?

[hedgesparrow]

my septic tank sunk back in summer due to having a settlement pond dug in woods by me by council. will not take blame for it the tank is now 5ft lower than it should be. so having to install new unit. but pilot holes we dug will not empty still full so it will have to wait untill the ground drys out:laugh1: to be able to dig new hole. then it will be surounded by concrete to stop this going again.

[timberbear]

I opted to install a reed bed sewage system and a large wildlife pond for all the rainwater. My sewage effluent gets pumped into a series of reed beds then empties into a soak away surrounded buy trees. It's never let us down although a pumps have failed.

[Diggerjohn]

Most of my work is replacing septic tanks with sewage treatment plants. Soakaways always fail eventually, regardless of the rainfall, so discharging directly into a ditch is a better and cheaper option than replacing a soakaway.

Most people don't have a big enough garden for a soakaway these days anyway. After the soakaway tests, the average soakaway that I put in is over 100M2 and all of it must be 15 metres from a building. Not many people can do it as it can't go under a drive or parking area either.

I put a sewage plant in just before Christmas for a bloke who had replaced his soakaway 5 times in 22 years. He reckoned he had spent over £15,000 in total for soakaways that always failed.

[twistedhicap]

I was talking to the guys at the local sewage processing plant, the system is way out of date with no real upgrading going on. It was built in the 60s with a projected increase in local population wildly miscalculated. So all the other infrastructure was improved upon as development took place...except the sewage works!!! We are now 40odd years on, antiquated systems, poor water management, filled in ditches with a hitch-pitch of blocked piping, acres of hard standing and built over water/flood meadows. Of course housing is going to get flooded out.

 

during this heavy rain we have had every time i go past the works at ~Stonham Aspal there are always wagons coming out full im guessing it cant cope like a lot of the smaller ones !!!