New law coming soon- will it affect you?

5 Dec 2017

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New law coming soon- will it affect you?

If you haven’t already heard, under the new Environment Agency general binding rules, if you have a septic tank that directly discharges to surface water, you will be required to replace or upgrade your septic tank treatment system to a full sewage treatment plant by 1st January 2020, or whenever you sell your property (if it is before this date).

To delve in to the information slightly deeper, it will be a legal offence after the above date to discharge waste from a septic tank in to ditches, streams, canals, rivers, surface water drains or any other type of water-course. Although it is over two years away, we would certainly suggest that you at least think about your course of action now (if these rules affect you), so as to reduce your chances of a stressful last quarter of 2019.

There are quite a variation of rules and requirements attached to this new law so we have included a link to the Environment Agency’s explanation here: https://lnkd.in/eR7gFUP. If you have any questions at all, please do not hesitate to contact a member of our team on 01371 850537 who will be happy to talk in greater detail about the 2020 E.A. general binding law change.

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