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Originally Posted by macafee2
no worries I thought it was me. Can you tell me what a cesspool is? I have looked on the internet and seen completely different descriptions
I am assuming your handle was based on work?
Forgive me, not trying to be thick or confrontational but what is a soakaway field?
macafee2
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Essentialy it is pond which your waste water drains in to not an enclosed tank like a cesspit. As you can imagine they are not very common now ! but the name dates back to medieval times when thats were waste water was disposed off.
Cesspit and cesspool are often use to mean the same. I suppose historically a pit could be man made and a pool a natural feature and over time the pit became covered.
A soakaway field has a series of perforated pipes normally in a herring bone pattern close to the ground which allows the water from a septic tank or treatement plant to soak back into the ground. Sometimes called an infitration trench or field.
Yes 36 yrs as a civil engineer designing sewerage systems.
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