No power requirement Sewage Treatment?

[steveR]

I am pondering a couple of options for improving the outfall from the farmhouse in the coming year.

4 Bed refurb property, dirty water and foul is going into a old, but working septic tank, however modern usage of washing machines, multiple showers etc are putting the system under pressure. Roof water all separated, so not going in the septic tank.

I would like to install a system that takes the outfall from the septic tank and clean it up properly and then run into a well watered ditch. The issue is the location is a long way off any electrical points, so the compressor type is not the preferred option. Falls do not allow a reedbed, apparently.

What is the best sort of system to be looking at?

 

[Nearly]

Why not fit compressor type / aerator and leave the compressor in an outbuilding and pipe the air alongside the waste pipe?
Bear in mind the aerator digesters sound like boiling mud.

We had to resite ours 100 yards from holiday cottages due to noise.

 

[Still Farming]

They all need power for motor or bubbler.
Can you mount Solar panels possibly?

 

[steveR]

Why not fit compressor type / aerator and leave the compressor in an outbuilding and pipe the air alongside the waste pipe?
Bear in mind the aerator digesters sound like boiling mud.

We had to resite ours 100 yards from holiday cottages due to noise.

Nice idea, but the pipework is already there, under concrete and a farm road I do not want to be digging this up ...

 

[Nearly]

Nice idea, but the pipework is already there, under concrete and a farm road I do not want to be digging this up ...

Pipe the compressed airline in from another angle?

 

[steveR]

They all need power for motor or bubbler.
Can you mount Solar panels possibly?

Probably cheaper to run 150m of SWA! But a pig to get it there...

 

[Pan mixer]

Probably cheaper to run 150m of SWA! But a pig to get it there...

There was a thread on getting a pipe under a concrete pad yesterday.

 

[Macsky]

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any use?

 

[Still Farming]

Probably cheaper to run 150m of SWA! But a pig to get it there...

Small generator ?

 

[steveR]

There was a thread on getting a pipe under a concrete pad yesterday.

I saw it, but not that keen under a building

 

[Doing it for the kids]

Would you leave the old one in or remove and start again?

how far is proposed area from a power supply?

 

[steveR]

Small generator ?

I have no idea how long, or how frequently the compressor would need to be running?

 

[steveR]

Would you leave the old one in or remove and start again?

how far is proposed area from a power supply?

Leave all the old system there, but treat/clean the outfall from the septic tank.

 

[Still Farming]

I have no idea how long, or how frequently the compressor would need to be running?

Possibly few hours a day ?

 

[Pan mixer]

Possibly few hours a day ?

Mine runs 24 hours.

 

[Doing it for the kids]

Leave all the old system there, but treat/clean the outfall from the septic tank.

Not sure how well it will work- the biology may be squiffy without the full monty.

also, you may still have to empty two tanks. Surely. Enter to replace the old with new and divert surface to the outflow?

Possibly few hours a day ?

Doubt that will do a good enough job

 

[steveR]

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Looks the biz, but fall might be an issue... I'll have a word with them I think. Cheers again...

 

[steveR]

Mine runs 24 hours.

So not a solar panel option I suspect... How much wattage is the compressor?

 

[Pan mixer]

So not a solar panel option I suspect... How much wattage is the compressor?

about 50 I think

 

[steveR]

about 50 I think

Thanks. Mains power then...