On 27/07/2020 19:28, april showers wrote:
On Monday, July 27, 2020 at 5:51:20 PM UTC+1, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 27/07/2020 17:13, april showers wrote:
Can anyone explain to me in very simple terms what the new septic tank regs are?

I have been looking on you tube and found a site which said all old eptic tanks have to be replaced regardless of how they work.

Then someone said it was fake information. But I cannot find out whats correct and what is not.

Have we all got to spend 15K replacing septic tanks, even when they work perfectly? Really? Why?

You need to have a tank meeting modern regs which is almost always an
active bio-stirrer one IF YOU REPLACE A TANK. But no building reg has
EVER been retrospective.


I am not selling my house. I have no thoughts of same.

I am not replacing the tank at all, as I said it works.

I do not discharge into a ditch or a water course in anyones field or anywhere else. The drainage field runs across my own garden and leaches out . No water course anywhere.

leaches out where ?, and after a winter like the last one, most water
ends up in a water course somewhere.

So, the You tube stuff doesnt apply then?