Tankmisery

I'm just trying to establish whether it should have been signed off when they knew the discharge was illegal. Sorry, I can't post everything about it, we'd be here all week!! I just posted the bit I needed help with 😊

Hi, thanks for your reply and sorry you've had to go through some thing similar. We are a bit past all that to be honest. They want us to take responsibility for it and all agencies are already involved. I'm just after clarifying what the bc stuff is about. Barristers are instructed so the matter has to be resolved. My drainage engineer hasn't encountered this excuse for permitting an illegal discharge before so I'm trying to figure it out. Thsnks.

We are in England and I know we are not gbr compliant. It's these pesky building regs I can't figure out. They were told it discharged to surface and saw two pipes sticking out (which were later removed so they could tell us and ea it was discharged to a drainage field). A dye test soon revealed the truth but I can't figure out why building control are happy with it!!

DT? Sorry, not used to forums. What does that mean? I'm hoping someone has been through similar, b=my drainage engineer has never seen anything like it!!

Hi,apologies, I though this was just an introductory thread - I posted my current concern in the waste/sewage section!

Who pays for it all is a separate problem! I'm just trying to get to the nitty gritty of the building regs. It appears to have been signed off as a material alteration and I don't understand why. I can't get to the bottom of paragraph 2b and it's relevance. If it applies, then which of the paragraph 3 conditions apply?

Thank you for your reply. When we bought the house, we were told it was a shared septic tank on our land and there was a drainage field on their land. We discovered there was no drainage field but a discharge to surface. We were then disconnected from the original discharge point and they installed a new pipe to a new discharge point, beyond the area we have legal access to.

Hi, Building control have signed off a new pipe from a septic tank discharging to surface, knowing it breaches gbr of the environment agency. They say its no worse than previous. They were told the discharge point was the same, which isn't true. We're they correct to do this? Thanks in advance 😊

Hi, I'm living in a septic tank hell. The last year has been totally dedicated to drains due to a neighbours fast and loose association with the truth. It very long and complicated and keeping up with the lies has been a full time job. No intention of posting the whole saga here as its heading to court, but there are some technical aspects I need help with.