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Septic tank and cesspool services in Stelling Minnis

Stelling Minnis and the lanes around it are well off the mains network, and nearly every property here runs its own cesspool, septic tank or treatment plant.

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KP Cesspool Services orange vacuum tanker parked on a Kent country lane with its suction hose run out

The common and the narrow lanes make access interesting, and a lot of the systems are older installations that benefit from being properly serviced rather than just emptied and forgotten.

Working in Stelling Minnis

Narrow lanes and verge parking are routine, and our tankers are sized to cope.
A lot of older systems here, where servicing finds faults an empty alone would miss.
We service and repair treatment plants as well as installing new ones.

The last open common on the Downs

Minnis means common land, and the Kent Downs landscape assessment describes Stelling Minnis as the last unenclosed downland common in the Kent Downs. The houses scattered around it sit on a plateau of heavy, sticky clay with flints over the chalk, the kind of ground where a drainage field can be slow and where the trial hole decides what will work.

There is very little surface water. The same assessment notes that the valley streams here, the nailbournes, run underground and only flow in very wet winters, that water management has always been a challenge, and that the chalk leaves the area open to both drought and occasional flooding when the nailbournes run. A tank that copes in a dry year can take in water when they do, which is something we look for when a tank empties far faster than it should. Several protected sites lie within a few kilometres, so a new system is checked against the General Binding Rules for its exact position, and treatment plant service and repair in Stelling Minnis covers the plants many homes here run.