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Photos of sewage treatment unit installation disasters
Waste Tech Sewage Treatment and Drainage Consultants
We see sights exactly like the ones below almost every day during drainage surveys and site visits to failing sewage treatment systems and septic tanks. All of the owners are in trouble
Sometimes these effluent discharges are from older types of sewage systems that have fallen into disrepair, but often they are from modern sewage treatment systems and units that are only a few years old! Sometimes it is because the sewage system and drainage has been poorly designed or not maintained regularly, but quite often, it is the SAME brand of sewage unit with the SAME problem, or the SAME drainage contractors who make the same mistake over and over again! 90% of our drainage surveys reveal at least one installation mistake!!
Some of the most problematical sewage treatment units units we come into contact with are made by some of the most well known Manufacturers. A household name does NOT guarantee a reliable, robust product, a lot depends on the drainage and tank installation.
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A complete disaster It should look like this
This sewage treatment unit on the left was massively undersized. It had also not been serviced for four years. The unit was a very well known make but the internal chambers had colapsed due to the overloading and poor installation and the whole unit had to be replaced. The owners were lucky to escape Court action. It was originally sized by the 'salesman' for a 'Tender' submission!
Healthy stream prior to the sewage pollution Same stream 2 months after!
Don't make the costly mistake shown above which is the result of sewage pollution of a stream in Sussex. Pollution of this magnitude is likely to end in Court.
Or this, which is typical 'Bloom' pollution from a correctly operating Septic Tank made by one of the leading septic tank Manufacturers. The installer piped it directly to the stream. Septic tanks must NEVER discharge into watercourses. The owners of the one causing the bloom above should be seriously worried about a Prohibition Notice which would prevent them from discharging any water from the house. Note the total absence of plant growth. The stream is DEAD!
This is a failed soakaway in a garden. The installer tried to soak the effluent into a cheap soakaway drainage PIT instead of a properly designed herringbone system. You can clearly see the outline of the drainage pit area in the grass. Children can no longer play in the garden and you wouldn't want to let your dog out in it either! The garden will have to be completely ruined for a new soakaway system to be installed!
Another example of a failed soakaway. The septic tank is full to overflowing as the effluent has 'backed-up' the drainage outlet pipe and caused the septic tank to overflow onto the lawn. If the required Percolation Tests had been done prior to installation, they would have proved that the clay land was incapable of soaking away septic effluent! The system will have to be scrapped and a new one, incorporating a sewage treatment unit piped to the ditch, installed. What a waste of money!
This hole appeared in a garden as a result of poor and insufficient backfilling when the septic tank was installed! You can see the neck of the unit in the hole. Concrete may be expensive, but not as expensive as this repair!
This drain has been laid much too close to trees which have flattened the pipe as the root grew. The drainage pipe diameter is now too small to allow sewage solids to pass, or to rod the pipe. The only solution is to either re-lay the drainage pipe to avoid the tree area, or to remove the trees, neither of which is a cheap option. Did the Contractor not know that drainage pipes must NEVER be laid within tree root zones or was it the easiest option for him?
Blocked drainage pipe causing an overflowing manhole The CULPRIT! Hedge roots blocking the drainage pipe
Another example of root damage, this time it is a hedge which is the culprit. The black mess next to the inspection chamber on the right is the mass of roots which were removed from the blocked drainage pipe. If proper watertight sewer pipes, connections and manholes are used, as per Building Regulations, this cannot happen, but this type of drainage pipe is more expensive. The owner has to either be prepared to rod the drains at regular intervals, remove the hedge or re-lay all the drainage. Nice game!
The above is a photo of a CORRECTLY operating Primary Settlement Tank in a 3 stage sewage treatment unit. The UK's leading brands are these 3 stage types! As you can imagine, Primary Settlement Tanks do NOT tend to be odourless! This unit had been installed next to the purpose built barbecue area causing it to be unusable in Summer!
A fat blocked drainage pipe leading to sewage treatment unit for a cafe. The installer 'forgot' to install the grease trap!
This drainage installation is far too near to the house!!! The excavation dangerously risks undermining the house foundations, as land can 'slump' at a 45degree angle from the bottom of the hole! If this happens here, the house wall will fall in! It is also under the minimum distance allowed under UK Building regulations of 7 metres from a dwelling! It proves that some Contractors either don't know or don't care!
What is this supposed to be? It is supposed to look like THIS!
This 'soakaway' drainage pipe on the left is only just buried under ground level! The pipe is plastic 'flexicoil' type which is NOT allowed for soakaways. In any case, Section H of the Building Regulations dictates that Thermoplastic pipes must be buried a MINIMUM 0.6metres deep due to its lack of strength. Normal drainage soakaway trenches are 600mm wide but this one is merely the diameter of the pipe! The gravel is the wrong size - drainage stone should be 30mm to 50mm! Someone PAID for this work!
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This is the photo that you want. A clean sample from a well designed, well installed and well maintained sewage treatment unit and drainage system.
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