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2. Effluent sewer - Wikipedia

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   Effluent sewer systems, also called septic tank effluent gravity (STEG), solids-free sewer (SFS), or septic tank effluent drainage (STED) systems, have septic tanks that collect sewage from residences and businesses, and the liquid fraction of sewage that comes out of the tank is conveyed to a downstream receiving body such as either a ...

3. Onsite sewage facility - Wikipedia

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   In the 1996 Clean Water Needs Survey (USEPA, 1996b), states and tribes also identified more than 500 communities as having failed septic systems that have caused public health problems. The discharge of partially treated sewage from malfunctioning onsite systems was identified as a principal or contributing source of degradation in 32 percent ...

4. Septic tank - Wikipedia

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   While a properly maintained and located septic tank poses no higher amount of environmental problems than centralized municipal sewage treatment, [16] certain problems could arise with a septic tank in an unsuitable location, and septic tank failures are typically more expensive to fix or replace than municipal sewer. [16] Since septic systems ...

5. 20% of Vero Beach barrier-island septic tanks fail ... - AOL

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   Vero Beach requires inspection, pumping of septic tanks every five years, but may reduce that mandate to every three years. 20% of Vero Beach barrier-island septic tanks fail inspections; many ...

6. Mayor issues ‘catastrophic’ warning as Runaway Bay sewage ...

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   There are sewage leaks all of the time, not just when it rains.

7. Sanitary sewer overflow - Wikipedia

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   Many U.S. municipalities require restaurants and food processing businesses to use grease interceptors and regulate the disposal of fats, oil and grease in the sewer system. [9] One of the main problems of a decentralized line failure is the difficulty of defining the location of overflow, since a typical urban system contains thousands of ...