Thursday, April 15, 2004
Saint Paterne
Exhausted. I've just finished digging and filling a new soakaway for the washing machines and some grey waste water. We've got three septic tanks for the house and the gites and consequently 3 soakaways. However I recently discovered that one of the tanks is an old fashioned 'Fosse Septique' rather than a 'Fosse Toutes Eau'. The former only takes foul waste and the latter both foul and grey water. Therefore having the grey water plumbed into a fosse septique is not a great idea cos it can 'flood' the tank causing undigested water to flow into the soakaway making a bad smell and potentially damaging the soakaway. So today has been an excerise in building a soakaway. I made it approximately 1 cubic meter in size and filled it with some larger rocks and loads of gravel. It was back breaking work shifting all that mud and rock, especially after yesterdays tree felling. I wished I hired a mini-digger. Now I just need to connect it up the the grey water supply. Another job off the list.
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