Connecting surface water to foul drainage system

[Gareth J]

What happens when the system is currently overwhelmed? If it's running roof water over your property before it leaves it, which is causing the issue, could you pipe the soakaway overflow towards somewhere more sensible? A road gulley?

The above peope suggesting it is bad, well not always. A major cause of blocked sewers is not enough liquid to wash the solids. Perhaps worse where eco water saving measures are taken and water meters are common. Rain into your swer will help it stay clear, provided it is not overwhelmed further along.

When our manhole access was blocked and full nearly to the brim, the solution was to pour several large buckets and flush the loo's to gain enough head, to clear it. For a moment I wasnt sure it had worked, but when it went, I felt very relieved as it was right near the top!

A properly designed sewage system that's asked only to deal with the things it should do doesn't need extra water.

Every blockage I've dealt with has been a result of some failing of the design or use. Too much run, too little run, cracked pipes, inappropriate stuff flushed etc.

 

[fizzy]

I wonder if anyone has realised why all the fish stocks are dwindling? Lack of food
Seriously fish used to thrive on sewer outlets etc.
A recent study on the cockle beds off Burryport showed that the water is too clean for them - not enough to eat.
I mean lets face it our rivers and seas are probably cleaner now than at any time since perhaps the 1400s!

 

[dobbslc]

its just at a certain level you can then send it into the main drains

The back of my house used to flood as the existing soak away was disconnected for the new one as insisted on by building control when we did the extension (heavy clay area ) the twit that did the work only told me a year later that he couldn't get through the clay layer
I tried to install another soak away with a bigger longer reach digger with an auger but just couldn't get through the clay layer so back filled it and run a pipe via a sump pump into the woods, the older soak away takes the rainwater until it fills up in heavy rain then the pump kicks in taking it away, no problem since.

 

[Agrismith]

You need permission to connect to a public drainage system. A lot of people don't realise that anything extra connected needs permission, even if you connect an extra toilet within your house to your own pipes that then connect to water authority sewers then permission needs to be sort. Seeing as a new toilet is part H building control it is usually done as part and parcel of this.
Due to fines water authorities are set to see for discharging sewage into water courses, there is an investment package being drawn up to actively find miss connections, these are any connections that are either discharging foul into surface water and vice versa, but also any connections to a sub standard.
Any mis connections identified will need to be put right at the cost of the home owner.

Basically what you are considering is a massive no-no. With the potential to become quite costly to yourself in the future. Especially if they get the chance to issue fines for mis connections.

 

[jimbo84]

Our estate of almost 2000 houses, built over the last 25 years, rainwater goes into the sewer. Same with the past 2 houses I’ve lived in.

 

[gaz1]

You need permission to connect to a public drainage system. A lot of people don't realise that anything extra connected needs permission, even if you connect an extra toilet within your house to your own pipes that then connect to water authority sewers then permission needs to be sort. Seeing as a new toilet is part H building control it is usually done as part and parcel of this.
Due to fines water authorities are set to see for discharging sewage into water courses, there is an investment package being drawn up to actively find miss connections, these are any connections that are either discharging foul into surface water and vice versa, but also any connections to a sub standard.
Any mis connections identified will need to be put right at the cost of the home owner.

Basically what you are considering is a massive no-no. With the potential to become quite costly to yourself in the future. Especially if they get the chance to issue fines for mis connections.

if your connecting to already existing pipework that becomes council trying to insert every detail of what your doing to your property being informed to them

something that they have been trying to do for years where everything you do to the property must be informed and therefore to be paid for which is there intent

as goes for connecting to external drains they have to be informed and tested

for new connections does come under building control

 

[Dapph2]

I wonder if anyone has realised why all the fish stocks are dwindling? Lack of food
Seriously fish used to thrive on sewer outlets etc.
A recent study on the cockle beds off Burryport showed that the water is too clean for them - not enough to eat.
I mean lets face it our rivers and seas are probably cleaner now than at any time since perhaps the 1400s!

True ,however we now have manmade chemicals & heavy chemicals that do not breakdown to harmless chemicals such as PCB's & artificial rubber compounds from car tyres washed out to our seashores .

I doubt fish thrive when swimming in such soups nor will their eggs & milt survive unharmed , so no wonder why we have a massive reduction in stock recruitment .

 

[fizzy]

True ,however we now have manmade chemicals & heavy chemicals that do not breakdown to harmless chemicals such as PCB's & artificial rubber compounds from car tyres washed out to our seashores .

I doubt fish thrive when swimming in such soups nor will their eggs & milt survive unharmed , so no wonder why we have a massive reduction in stock recruitment .

Imagine what it was like back in the "good old days"!
The Swansea vale didn't have a tree or blade of grass for many years.
Everything toxic known to man was dumped just anywhere!

 

[Dapph2]

Imagine what it was like back in the "good old days"!
The Swansea vale didn't have a tree or blade of grass for many years.
Everything toxic known to man was dumped just anywhere!

Dredging has been suspended in many a seaside inlet , river due to the amount of heavy metals hiding in the mud .