Sunday, December 09, 2007
Fosse septique photos
As promised some photos of the septic tanks and filter beds.
Everything has gone really well and both sand filter beds (bac-a-sable) are now complete with the guys just finishing the outflow pipe from the two filter beds out to the gulley in the lane.
The only slight delay was the suspected presence of an underground PTT cable in the garden. My neighbour mentioned it and gave me a copy of the plan showing the 'approximate' position of the cable. It was a very old hand drawn plan. The guys from the digger company also had a plan from the PTT which was slightly different! No problem, they say, the boss is coming to find the cable. I expected someone to arrive with a metal detector, ground radar or something, but he turned up with a couple of rusty bent welding rods. A bit of divining and some comical and sceptical remarks from me and the 'known' position of the cable was marked out and everything positioned to avoid the cable.
Well as it turned out, the diviner was just about bang on and as you can see the cable was uncovered without plunging Northern Brittany into silence. Apparently it's a fairly major national trunk cable.
Once the authority's inspector has been and checked everything conforms it will all be backfilled, covered over and the garden should be ready for planting. It's certainly going to need some work as it's a very muddy mess at the moment.
 Hole for first septic tank |
 Tank lowered into place |
 Pipework connected and pump (green top) fitted |
 Gravel delivery rescued from mud |
 Hole for sand filter |
 Plastic liner, gravel and pipework |
 Filling with sand |
 Completed filter with input pipework and gravel |
 Filter bed outflow pipe |
 Buried national PTT cable |
| 5:12:54 PM
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