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General Small domestic sewage management facilities or on-site sewage management systems include all types of human waste storage facilities. They include pump-out systems, sewage ejection units, septic tanks, aerated wastewater treatment systems, composting toilets, pit toilets, wastewater filtration systems, effluent soak-away trenches, mounds and irrigation areas, greywater treatment systems, greywater application systems and domestic grease traps. Failing on-site sewage management systems release dangerous levels of sewage pollution to the environment. Sewage pollution causes contamination of water, which can spread disease and lead to environmental degradation. There are approximately 300,000 on-site sewage management systems across NSW and the cumulative impact of effluent, sometimes from thousands of systems, is a critical problem. Sewage pollution is evident in metropolitan, suburban and rural residential areas, in unsewered rural villages and in environmentally sensitive areas, especially near waterways and in drinking water catchments.
Greater Taree Onsite Water Quality Monitoring Program Example Protocol: Onsite Sewage Costs One full time staff member plus motor vehicle per 1,000 onsite systems Case studies Various Local Government Case Studies (Septic Safe Grant Funded) Organisation contacts NSW Department of Local Government |
Internal Links Algal Species Density and Diversity Fish Monitoring for Water Quality Physical and Chemical Monitoring Real Time Water Quality Monitoring |
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