Seepage pit

Seepage pit is a sewage disposal system comprised of a septic tank and connected cesspool.
Septic tank is a large sewage disposal tank where a continuous flow of waste material is decomposed by bacteria.
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SEEPAGE PIT - A septic tank and cesspool making up a system for sewage disposal.
SEPTIC TANK - A tank in which sewage settles to the bottom where part of it is destroyed by bacteria and the rest is discharged to a leaching bed.

Seepage Pit - A sewage disposal system composed of a septic tank and a connected cesspool.

SEEPAGE PIT: A pit in which sewage drains from a septic tank, and which is so constructed that the liquid waste seeps through the sides of the pit into the ground.

Cesspools and seepage pits: Use 1/2 gallon for the first treatment, then 1 cup (8oz.) every 2 weeks per pit.

A seepage pit, dry well, cesspool or leaching pit
Less than three feet of vertical separation between the soil treatment system bottom and the saturated soil or bedrock
Sewage backup into dwelling or establishment ...

Private sewage systems include septic tanks with absorption fields, seepage beds, seepage pits, clivus multrum systems, aerobic systems and cess-pools (banned in many communities).

A settling tank in which the sludge in the household sewage settles and the effluent discharges into an absorption field or seepage pit.
The distance from a street or front property line to the front of a building.
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so as to separate solid from the liquid, digest organic matter through a period of detention, and allow the liquids to discharge into the soil outside of the tank through a system of open-joint or perforated piping, or through a seepage pit.

See also: Home, House, Water, Septic tank, Building