Sewage Controller

After nearly 10 years on Blip, I have explained the twice a year sewage cesspit control often enough so will spare the details and link a previous Blip.

Tomorrow a control has been announced so a quick check of the electrics and update written records we also have to keep, including various electronic counters that record how many minutes a day the various 'biological' processes are carried out by the unit. Even muck is electronically controlled nowadays!

Am very upset about yet another cost coming our way. Normally every 4 years we have to have an independent assessor control the work of the independent contractor who we are obliged by law to have regularly do an inspection which had, since 1996, been twice a year.

In 2015, some lawmaker changed this law for our particular type of cesspit to three inspections a year but didn't inform us or our contractor. So when the assessor was last here he spotted this  & had to legally write there was a "serious fault" which would not normally mean a high danger of sewage getting into the nearby stream. This is of course not the case.

So back in 2018, we increased the inspections to three per annum. Now the authorities have said that the "serious fault" report in 2017 means we have to have the assessor do a check after two years instead of four.

All of these visits cost us real money between €110 (per 3 p.a. inspection) & €250 (assessor). So another additional visit simply to double-check the paperwork is costing us further €250. Not a gramme of benefit for the environment. Things like this turn people off the whole very important issue.