We offer competitively priced liquid waste collection services through
our partner CFH Tanker Services using high performance vacuum tankers
and experienced drivers and operatives.
Interceptors
Vehicle parking areas, yards and forecourts should drain to the surface
water interceptor. Accumulation of silt and debris in the interceptors
will prevent them from working efficiently and so they need to be regularly
emptied and cleaned. Surface water from your premises will eventually
discharge to local streams and you are legally responsible for making
sure that the discharge does not pollute the receiving streams. Note that
if you wait until the interceptors are full before arranging for an emptying
you may not necessarily avoid pollution. The quality of the discharge
from your premises is all important.
The following liquid wastes should not be directed to surface water interceptors,
storm drains, watercourses or soakaways:
Vehicle wash waters containing detergents (including so called bio-degradable),
traffic film removers and other chemicals.
Liquid waste from vehicle maintenance areas, and workshop interceptors,
internal drains and gullies.
Paraffin and white spirits used as degreasers.
Liquid waste from canteens and laboratories.
Detergents and chemicals will pollute streams and rivers even if discharged
through interceptors, and, therefore, should go to the foul sewer, possibly
via an interceptor. Consent to discharge to a sewer should be obtained
from the local sewerage undertaker (not the Environment Agency or local
council) for handling at the sewage treatment works. Alternatively, such
liquid waste can be directed to a catchpit with no discharge capability
and collected and removed for disposal by our vacuum tankers.
Cutting/suds oils are polluting to water and must not be directed to
the surface water systems. Our vacuum tankers will call to your premises
and we will arrange for safe disposal.
Sewage
For businesses not connected to mains sewage, we are able to offer a regular
emptying service for septic tanks and cesspools.
If your septic tank is in good working order, it should only require
infrequent emptying. The sewage is retained in chambers for sufficient
time for the solids to drop to the bottom of the tank where bacteria breaks
down the solids in to a sludge that can be collected by our vacuum tankers
and taken away for disposal. The liquid drains from your tank through
an outlet pipe and soaks away in to an especially prepared area of land.
Cesspools are watertight tanks that receive and store solid and liquid
sewage from your premises. There is no outlet pipe and liquid is not allowed
to drain away and consequently the vacuum tanker will need to empty the
entire contents of the cesspool. This operation has to be carried out
frequently and is, therefore, a considerable cost to your business.
Fat/grease traps
Kitchens generate fat and grease that is collected in especially designed
traps to prevent discharging in to the foul drains. An accumulation of
fat can cause unpleasant odours and if not regularly emptied blockages
will occur. We offer a vacuum tanker collection service which if undertaken
on a regular schedule will prevent blockages.
We are also able to provide a drum collection service of fat if required.
