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| What
to do if you STS floods or overflows |
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Whenever
you observe flooding/overflow from your STS, you should:
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Immediately
reduce to an absolute minimum the discharges from
your showers, baths, toilets and sinks etc. |
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Inspect
and desludge your STS. Please consider emptying
the whole STS. The methods described in paragraphs
10 and 12
should be followed. |
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Let
your soakaway pit drain out completely and then
leave it empty for at least 2 to 3 days for the
soakaway pit and the adjacent soil to take a "rest".
If the soakaway pit remains full, then you must
empty it by pumping. "Resting" can help
clogged soakaway pits to recover. |
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Continue
to minimize water usage after resuming discharge
into the STS. Only when satisfied that the STS is
working normally, should you return it to normal
use. Otherwise, see paragraph 18. |
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If
you have had occasional flooding or overflow from your
STS, especially after rainfall, you should:
- reduce
water usage and minimize discharge as much as possible,
- make
no, or extremely little, discharge during rainfall
and also on the day that follows,
- check
that your water pipes are not leaking and that your
water closets are not flushing continuously,
- check
that rainwater cannot enter your STS, and
- look
into extending your STS, if suspected to be undersized.
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| 18. |
If
your STS continuously floods/overflows, and this has
started within the first year of using your STS, it
is very likely that this is due to undersizing, poor
siting and/or poor construction of your STS. If minimizing
water usage, desludging and "resting" of the
soakaway pit altogether had failed to prevent flooding/overflow
from your STS, you should seriously consider:
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Investigating
whether an extended, relocated or reconstructed
STS would improve the situation; specialist advice
may be useful here. Please see paragraph
24 as well.
Before
improvement to your STS could be made, you should:
- Use
public latrines and public bath-houses as far as possible.
- Use
all practicable means to maintain at an absolute minimum
the discharges from your showers, baths, toilets and
sinks, etc.
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Inspect
and desludge your STS frequently.
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Enquiries
on the Location of Public Bath-houses and Desludging
Services
Food
and Environmental Hygiene Department Hotline Tel.: 2868
0000
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