Sewage treatment plants

[Dim Reaper]

We have a touring caravan park and are looking into replacing our current septic tank arrangement. We would need a plant with capacity for about 60 people. Have any of you any experience of sewage plants of this sort of size? What’s good or bad about different makes? What to look out for? I’d be interested to hear your views. Thank you in advance.

 

[robs1]

We have a touring caravan park and are looking into replacing our current septic tank arrangement. We would need a plant with capacity for about 60 people. Have any of you any experience of sewage plants of this sort of size? What’s good or bad about different makes? What to look out for? I’d be interested to hear your views. Thank you in advance.

Would guess for that size a concrete one would be longer lasting, main point NO moving parts in the sewage, folk chuck lots of stuff down drains that moving parts dont like and I dont like getting it out, we have two 10 person ones which are just air pump ones, cant remember the makes off the top of my head, one is 17 years old and we fitted a new pump last year, the other is three years old.

 

[Still Farming]

Graff systems work well

 

[PREES]

We had a problem on our caravan park as the drainage would not cope with the volume of liquid coming out particularly on busy periods (not this year!!) so we already had an extra chamber after the septic tank and added a pump to take the liquid away to a reed bed system in our next field. Touch wood absolutely no problem ever since . As long as the pump works the reed beds are great and no smell no blockages and it deals with a serious volume of effluent

 

[Lincsman]

Can they take the blue chemical stuff?

 

[PREES]

Can they take the blue chemical stuff?

Seems to be ok, we do find however that most people use our facilities rather than have the hassle of using their own on board toilets etc. As a result the volume of "blue stuff" is heavily diluted.

 

[Pan mixer]

Would guess for that size a concrete one would be longer lasting, main point NO moving parts in the sewage, folk chuck lots of stuff down drains that moving parts dont like and I dont like getting it out, we have two 10 person ones which are just air pump ones, cant remember the makes off the top of my head, one is 17 years old and we fitted a new pump last year, the other is three years old.

Our new 8 person ones are Marsh Ensign with air pumps that you can take out and mount somewhere more civilised than down a hole with a lot of poo

 

[e3120]

Our new 8 person ones are Marsh Ensign with air pumps that you can take out and mount somewhere more civilised than down a hole with a lot of poo

Do you think it'd be OK if the pump was 100m away in a nice dry shed and connected with 20mm? It's a lot more attractive pumping air down the field than leccy, and something will surely try to bull the pump otherwise.

 

[Pan mixer]

Do you think it'd be OK if the pump was 100m away in a nice dry shed and connected with 20mm? It's a lot more attractive pumping air down the field than leccy, and something will surely try to bull the pump otherwise.

Ask them, the pipe on mine is 30m long and the diameter that you can get you thumb in just about which was the same diameter as the short bit that came with it. I sleeved the underground bit though.

I can't see why not though.