dennerlymum

Hi

for the last few months we have been trying to get devis for a new foss aux normes.

First stop the local syndicat d'eau - who told us categorically that the treated water must evacuate into a ditch or the village rainwater pipes.... after being refused rights to cross the field behind us to access the nearest ditch 200m away and finding out that the rainwater pipe was on the other side of the road from us, we returned for the second stop at the syndicat

They passed us up the ladder, where we on hearing our story, they told us we had to get a soil test (for assanisement) done.. several weeks of ggole searches later we located ONE company that did this in the whole region - who quoted us 700€

Another month of google searches later, realising our previous searches were correct and there was indeed only one company - we bit the bullet and booked the inspection today (biting the bullet again when informed we had to also provide a digger plus driver - another 100€)

However we have now got the information we needed - we can have a soakaway for our treated water - and can finally begin to collect quotes (it is apparently illegal for fosse installers to give you a quote for a fosse that will be hors normes so no one would even quote before!!)

The moral of the story is keep pushing! If we had accepted the first info then we would be facing having to pump treated water from our garden and then pay to close a dept route for several days at great expense to us to evacuate said water in the village pluvial!

Roll on new fosse - no more rolling up the sleeves to unblock it and then facing weeks of in house stink!

InVinoVeritas

I'm sorry to take issue with you on this but you ABSOLUTELY cannot disperse the effluent from a fosse septique in a ditch or rainwater system. This would constitute a serious health risk.

Neither is there any shortage of geologues in your area capable of doing soil permeability tests.

Point barre.

Chatter Static

Glad to hear it they can be a pain we got charged to unblock a drain they had to dig up the drive to put an inspection hatch in Bloody plumber had caused the blockage but we had no way of proving it.

dennerlymum

Hi not EFFLUENT but treated water - the effluent stays in the fosse to be collected
goelogue specialisé en teste de sol pour assanisement NON lots of geologues doing tests de sol - but hey is it worth getting worked up about? really??

It's just an anecdote...

Chatter Static

France has lot's of tomato plants growing in ditches and other obscure places where water drains out I knew one lady in a village in the south that would only flush her grinding toilet certain times of the day because it emptied in to the rain water drain which went 150 mtrs underground then down a hill in open ditches

InVinoVeritas

Sorry if I got too worked but other people may think that such a solution (surface dispersion) would have been OK. What comes out of a fosse (especially a" toutes eaux" system) is not treated, it is just that solids have been retained.

dennerlymum

Frankly it astounds me that the water from my fosse is supposed to go into the fossé or the rainwater drain, but that is what is expected her in the SW
It explains the stink coming off many of the ditches in surrounding villages!

InVinoVeritas

Certainly wouldn't want to fall in one walking back from the pub. Or maybe that's why they don't have pubs in France

dennerlymum

round here they are full of cars n a Sunday morning after the drunks have tried to drice home on Sat night

Chatter Static

You started early...

dennerlymum

oops - dyslexic fingers!