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dog faeces can it be added to compost heap
"swroot" wrote in message ... ned wrote: Janet Baraclough wrote: [-] At our old house on the mainland, the council sent sewage suction tankers (not tractors and bowsers)on round trips of up to 70 miles to empty septic tanks and take the contents to sewage works. It cost householders £27. snip I hear what you say Janet and I would not dream of questioning your experience. But, believe me the practice of spreading the contents of septic tanks on farmland is still current in my neighbourhood. Just as you assumed from your experience that this no longer occurred, I, from my experience, thought it to be a more 'widespread' practice than it apparently is. The sewage works merely concentrate the solids, they don't make the stuff magically disappear. The resultant sludge may be burned, but this is expensive and wasteful: the fertility is better returned to the soil. So sewage companies are now (I understand) *paying* farmers to take the sludge as agricultural fertiliser. It's more usual in truly rural areas, as farmers spreading it near other people's houses are often inundated with complaints about the smell (it's truly noxious). In the 'good old days', there were sewage farms which were just that, i.e. farms where the principal use was the disposal of sewage on the land. There was one of these not far from the location of what is now the Toyota factory south of Derby, which was the sewage farm for Burton on Trent. Sewage was pumped there via a steam powered beam engine at Clay Mills sewage works just outside Burton, and distributed around the fields via a quite complex ditch and drainage system. I think it remained in use until the 1960s or 70s. |
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