Septic tank and cesspit services in Appledore
Appledore is an unusual one, because the village sits on the old cliff line where the higher ground drops away onto the Marsh. That means two quite different sets of conditions within a mile of each other, and what works on the ridge does not necessarily work below it.
We cover the village, the properties along the Royal Military Canal and the farms out onto the levels. It was a port once, which tells you how much the water has moved since.
Working in Appledore
- Properties up on the ridge often have workable ground for a drainage field, while those below it frequently do not.
- The Royal Military Canal and the Marsh dykes both count as watercourses for discharge purposes, which decides a lot of installations here.
- Older village property tends to have brick built chambers rather than modern units.
A former port on the edge of the Marsh
Appledore was a busy port on the estuary of the River Rother until the fourteenth century, when storms changed the river's course and the reclamation of the Marsh pushed the sea away. Today it sits about nine miles inland, on the higher ground above the levels, with the Royal Military Canal running below the village. The canal, dug between 1804 and 1809 against a feared Napoleonic invasion, is a scheduled monument along its length here.
The old shoreline through the parish divides the drainage. Up in the village the ground can often take a septic tank's drainage field. Below it, on the levels beside the canal, the water table is high, dykes are everywhere and a field rarely works. Any new system draining towards the canal or the dykes has to meet the General Binding Rules, and work that affects the canal itself, as a scheduled monument, can need consent from Historic England, so it is worth getting advice before anything is designed.
Village property here is often old, with brick built chambers that have been in the ground a very long time. A service that checks the walls and joints, rather than just an empty, is worth having on a tank of that age. Our septic tank servicing covers it, and what a tank service actually includes in Kent explains the difference.
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