I'd be tempted to get an impartial bit of advice to make sure it complies,
and if it does then you have no worries, if not then you have a couple of
years to get it done, however I still feel in the vast expanse of things
that need fixing about sewage and rivers, sceptic tanks are like a pin
prickcompared to the number of commercial sewage plants that just dump raw
sewage if it gets too much water through it and overflows.
Brian

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On Wednesday, August 15, 2018 at 12:26:59 PM UTC+1, Nightjar wrote:
On 15/08/2018 12:03,


Essentially, if your existing septic tank discharges to a waterway, you
have to upgrade it before 1st January 2020, or when you sell your house,
whichever is the sooner. You can either replace it with a sewage
treatment plant, the outflow from which is clean enough to be discharged
into a waterway, or run the outlet from your existing tank to drainage
field. The latter has to comply with current British Standards, so it is
something you need to get a specialist company in to do.


Oh, thank you. So it doesnt apply then. My drainage field zig zags across
my own land and drains into the soil somehow or other through those holes
in the pipes that go from the outlet ( if that makes sense).