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Post by houpla on Mar 16, 2023 21:47:06 GMT 1
If anyone with a fosse and bac à graisse fancies a laugh, have a look at the Service Publique site on current regs. Our bac à graisse badly needed emptying so I had a browse just to get up-to-date. It's a joke. One bit says do it every 6 months and chuck the residue in the household rubbish, then another bit says it's strictly illegal now to empty it yourself and very, very illegal to put the residue in the household etc etc.... Must be done by an entreprise agréee, must have a certificate etc etc, €75k fine or prison sentence for disobeying. Pfffft! The SPANC inspections have been changed from once every 4 years to once every 10 years..slight difference there  The other option (assuming that you've even got a conforming system which is difficult as they were becoming obsolete within 4 years in 2006) is do what the French neighbours do. Nothing at all or what the hell they like  |
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Post by pcpa on Mar 17, 2023 11:23:31 GMT 1
I have yet to find a bac à graisse, it's of little consequence because the only things that would have gone into the blocked drain which may have led (but I doubt) to a bac à graisse now discharge onto the soil temporarily until I make the connection to the mains drainage, I have another year to do so.
There is a 7m3 brick fosse toutes eaux whose level remains fixed at about 50cm beneath the top which I am fairly certain has an oveflow leading out into the soil.
I'm not looking forward to emptying it and then having to get inside amongst the schmoo & detritus to break holes in the bottom for when it will be remblayé, I have an ever growing mountain of hardcore waiting beside it which looks very unsightly.
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Post by houpla on Mar 17, 2023 13:47:25 GMT 1
Oooo you rebel you! All that despite the dire warnings about DIY vidange?
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Post by pcpa on Mar 17, 2023 13:58:08 GMT 1
As I am the only one on the street that is not yet connected to tout à l'égout yet the only one actually paying the €150 per year standing charges for it (go figure!) I dont see any problem with using a poo pump to send the sausages to the seaside by pumping it straight into my sewage connection when made.
Although I will probably wimp out and let my next door neighbours nephew do it with the honey cart he parks outside several lunch hours a week.
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Post by cernunnos on Mar 17, 2023 21:19:14 GMT 1
We have a fosse septique that I replaced 30 years ago with a fosse tout eaux that was connected to the same system that emptied into our lake.
Last year , because the commune have given the franchise to the comcom ,we have had a control , first time in 30 years, now our system is not " au norme" so have 4 years to bring it "up to date"
The fine will be less than the cost of doing that!
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Post by houpla on Mar 17, 2023 21:47:37 GMT 1
Just ignore them. Everyone else does, apart from a few paranoid Brits We installed a complicated, fairly costly FTE to the brand-spanking new normes in 2006. Four years later, the normes were completely revised because (surprise surprise) the filter beds didn't work as expected. (Apparently, the Gov had based their normes on an Australian model which simply didn't work here ). There was lots of earnest advice dished out about removing the 28 tonnes of sand and gravel from around the epandage pipes and sending it away to a specialist Company to be washed, then putting it back. Really?? It was at that point that we adopted our neighbours' attitude to Government directives |
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Post by cernunnos on Mar 17, 2023 21:54:04 GMT 1
Just ignore them. Everyone else does, apart from a few paranoid Brits We installed a complicated, fairly costly FTE to the brand-spanking new normes in 2006. Four years later, the normes were completely revised because (surprise surprise) the filter beds didn't work as expected. (Apparently, the Gov had based their normes on an Australian model which simply didn't work here ). There was lots of earnest advice dished out about removing the 28 tonnes of sand and gravel from around the epandage pipes and sending it away to a specialist Company to be washed, then putting it back. Really?? It was at that point that we adopted our neighbours' attitude to Government directives That is what i said to the young man that came to make the survey , in four years time we will be to old to worry about it , send the bill , we won't pay , then send us to free lodging in the prison ! |
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Post by Polarengineer on Mar 18, 2023 6:59:00 GMT 1
This all sounds like anarchy, please don't join the riots by pumping poo into the streets.
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Post by houpla on Mar 18, 2023 7:32:59 GMT 1
Wouldn't dream of it. I'll be too busy trying to push over radars |
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Post by Aardvark on Mar 18, 2023 10:32:31 GMT 1
Spray can of black paint applied to the camera lens works a treat.
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Post by curtis on Mar 18, 2023 11:15:52 GMT 1
You need a ladder to get to the new ones.
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Post by pcpa on Mar 18, 2023 11:49:55 GMT 1
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Post by jackie on Mar 18, 2023 12:11:16 GMT 1
You need a ladder to get to the new ones. Doesn’t stop them being vandalised round our way - they just push them over with a tractor or something…. The standard one near us was blasted with a shotgun a while, was out of action for quite a while….👍 |
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Post by pcpa on Mar 18, 2023 12:57:36 GMT 1
Its taking at least 6 months to replace the radar tourelles that are cut or knocked down, hopefully the cost of maintenance & replacement after vandalism will eventually outweigh the revenue that they bring in.
The one in question is on a die straight Roman road with 80kph limit, it is at least 5kms from any habitations in either direction and at the very bottom of a steep hill on both sides, there is not even a solid white line so you can overtake there, there are numerous other places on that road where a Radar would actively contribute to road safety.
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Post by houpla on Mar 18, 2023 14:37:34 GMT 1
Spray can of black paint applied to the camera lens works a treat. Trouble is, they can see you coming...especially those sneaky b******s in concrete cones. |
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