"Peter Crosland" wrote in message
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"This will hopefully serve as a warning to the owners of properties
served
by cesspools to check that their cesspools do not have any discharge
pipes,
holes or cracks which could discharge untreated sewage to the
environment."

So where does that leave householders who have ancient septic tanks that
were installed under a laxer (or indeed non existent) regime?

If its there already,as with most stuff covered by BDO etc its OK to
leave
it.

The MOMENT you upgrade it in any way, new regulations tend to apply.

I.e. leave it alone and they cannot touch you. Make a change and it must
be
upgraded to modern specs.


Sorry to say but you are quite wrong. The EA can, and do, prosecute people
who hve a system that is causing pollution. Whilst the chances are that
they will not find out if they do the consequencesx are likely to be
costly. This can happen by chance or by someone reporting it.

Peter Crosland

Based on your "contributions" you must make a living from enforcing petty
rules?