Do the klargester type systems need a running watercourse to discharge into?
If so does it have to run 365 days a year?
Easiest one is seasonal & dries up in spring til Autumn... Is that likely ok? Or not?
Tia Jim K
Our Klargester claims to discharge potable water so I don't see why it cannot discharge onto any outfall. Mind you it's motor / gearbox failed the other day and it was close to discharging raw sewage!
One thing to be aware of is what happens in a power cut. Ours serves our house and two holiday cottages that we have. I had to set up a generator recently to keep it from overflowing as both cottages were occupied and we lost mains for 18 hours.
Andrew
I have one of those. Mine discharges into land drains. (Leach field)
I think in your case you would have to pass the outflow through a reed bed before it could be discharged into a water course.
If it's like ours with a large rotating drum spinning on a horizontal axis, it has I believe three chambers or zones. Poo goes into zone 1,and as the drum rotates the liquid element is carried into zone 2 in small quantities where the microbes are chewing away at it. Then slowly but surely it is transferred again via the drum into zone 3 which overflows into the pumping chamber, where a float valve operated pump pumps it directly into our little stream, for which I have a permit from the EA. Once a year we get zone 1's sludge pumped away, and whoopee, tomorrow's the day so clothes pegs on noses !
Andrew
When we had one, it discharged into a ditch the other side of the road. The ditch was usually damp at the bottom - but that could easily have been our outflow.
OTOH, I would start by giving Klargester a ring (they must have a technical support department). After that, I would talk to the local office of the Environment Agency - they are the ones who will have to grant a permit.
You can try it first. B-)
The water from an aerobic Klargester type plant is certainly a lot more pleasant than that from an anerobic septic tank.
It would without being constantly stired and air bubbled through.
Septic tanks are passive. B-)
Last time I looked, the EA were awaiting changes in legislation and weren't granting permits. Ah - here we are:
It depends on the consent you get from the Environment agency and the exact type of treatment plant. Mine is much simpler than the Klargester brand inasmuch there are no moving parts. A simple electric pump injects air at the base of the tank. The requirements of the Environment Agency permit depend on how clean the output fluid is. Mine drains into a herringbone layout and percolates through the soil.
// If so does it have to run 365 days a year?
Yes, however there are options for a seasonal soakaway or watercourse. /Q
Care to expand on these 'options'?
TIA
Jim K
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