Cesspit and septic tank services in Brenzett
Brenzett sits at the crossroads in the middle of Romney Marsh, and the Marsh is about as far from mains drainage as Kent gets. Nearly every property out here runs its own tank, and the dykes and sewers that drain the land are never far from any of them.
That last point matters more than anything else about working here. Where a tank sits close to a drainage dyke, both what the system is allowed to do and where it can discharge are tightly constrained.
Working in Brenzett
- A high winter water table across the whole Marsh, which pushes groundwater into any tank with a failed joint and fills it with clean water.
- Drainage dykes everywhere, so the ten metre clearance a drainage field needs is often the thing that rules one out.
- Flat, open ground and long farm tracks, both of which we come equipped for.
In the middle of the Marsh
Brenzett sits at the crossroads where the roads across Romney Marsh meet, a few miles inland from the coast, with farmland and dykes in every direction. The dykes work as one drainage system, and many of the larger ones are looked after by the Romney Marshes Area Internal Drainage Board, whose consent is needed for works in or within 8 metres of a watercourse it maintains.
That matters for any property planning a new system. A drainage field must be at least 10 metres from any watercourse, which on the Marsh rules out a lot of plots before the water table even comes into it. A treatment plant can discharge to a dyke, but only to one that flows all year, and a new outfall into one of the Board's dykes needs the Board's agreement as well as meeting the General Binding Rules. Treatment plant service and repair in New Romney explains how plants and dykes work together on the Marsh.
For the many properties here on a cesspool, the winter water table is the thing to watch. A tank that suddenly fills twice as fast between November and March is usually taking in groundwater, and we look for it while the tank is empty. How weather affects cesspools and septic tanks explains the pattern.
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