Written answers

Tuesday, 28 March 2006

Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government

Waste Disposal

11:00 pm

Photo of Billy TimminsBilly Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Question 538: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position in respect of septic tanks; if there are new regulations on septic tanks; if there are grants available to upgrade old septic tanks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11733/06]

Photo of Dick RocheDick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Septic tanks installed on or after 1 June 1992 must comply with part H of the national building regulations. Technical guidance document H — drainage and waste water disposal — calls up the following standards, namely, for septic tanks serving single houses, Irish standard recommendations SR6 of 1991 for domestic effluent treatment and disposal from single dwellings issued by the National Standards Authority of Ireland, NSAI, and for septic tanks serving groups of houses, British standard BS 6297:1983, incorporating amendment No. 1 of 1990, a code of practice for the design and installation of small sewage treatment works, issued by the British Standards Institution. I understand that the Environmental Protection Agency is developing a revised manual on waste water treatment systems serving single houses which will supersede SR6 of 1991. There are no grants available from my Department for the upgrading of septic tanks.

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