Septic tank and cesspool services in Bethersden
Bethersden is strung out along the A28 with a great deal of the parish scattered down side lanes, and almost none of that outlying property is on mains drainage. It sits on the road between Ashford and Tenterden, which makes fitting a visit in straightforward.
The clay here is the local landmark. Bethersden marble is a hard band in the Weald clay that was quarried for centuries, and the clay it sits in is exactly the ground a septic tank drainage field struggles with.
Working in Bethersden
- Heavy Weald clay throughout, so drainage fields saturate and fail sooner here than on chalk.
- We are through the village regularly, so an unscheduled empty rarely means a long wait.
- Long farm tracks are normal, and we carry the hose to reach tanks a tanker cannot get near.
Bethersden marble and the clay around it
Bethersden gave its name to a stone. Bethersden marble is not marble at all but a freshwater limestone packed with fossil snail shells, found in thin bands within the Weald clay and once dug from shallow pits all round the village. It went into church floors and memorials across Kent, and some of the ponds dotted around the parish are old workings that filled with water.
For drainage, the stone matters less than the clay it sits in. Weald clay drains very slowly, so a drainage field here has little spare capacity, and anything that adds to its load, an overdue empty letting sludge through, a downpipe running into the tank, a wet winter, can tip it into failure. A yearly septic tank empty is the cheapest protection a Bethersden septic tank has, and where a field has already failed, replacing a failed drainage field covers the options. On clay those often lead to a treatment plant or a sealed tank instead.
The parish is long and thinly spread along the A28 and its side lanes, so many tanks are a fair way from the road. We carry long hoses, so a tank behind a house at the end of a farm track can usually be emptied without the tanker leaving the hard surface.
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