Best Practice
Onshore Toilet
Facilities
- Provide clean, accessible shore side toilet
facilities and washrooms and encourage berth holders to use these
facilities whenever possible
- Any necessary charges should be minimal or
included within the mooring fees.
- Facilities should be connected to the public
foul sewer where possible, and with prior permissions of the local
sewer provider.
Installing Pump out facilities
When planning the installation of a sewage pump-out facility the
following issues should be considered:
- The location and accessibility for craft
- The promotion of the service and guide to its
use
- How to charge for the use of the facilities so
that people are not put off using them. Options include charging
each time they are used, charging as part of the harbour dues or
mooring/berthing fees, charging by volume, or charging different
rates at different times of the year
- Arrangement of a maintenance/inspection contract
with a competent servicing and repair contractor
- The availability of foul sewers for connection.
You should obtain advanced permission from the sewerage undertaker
to discharge sewage into their foul sewers
- When the effluent will be treated on site
(through the use of septic tanks or package sewage treatment
plants) prior to being discharged to land or a controlled water,
you should obtain permission from the environment agencies
Disposal of chemical toilet waste
- Dispose of any collected chemical toilet waste
in either the foul sewer or a centralised waste collection/disposal
facility (such as a chemical toilet disposal point)
- If a collection point is used, bulk sewage can
be collected by suitably licensed road tankers.
- Do not allow chemical toilet waste to be
accepted at stations served by septic tanks and package sewage
treatment plants. The chemicals can harm the micro-organisms
responsible for treating the sewage.
- Check out The Environment Agencies
Pollution Prevention Guidelines PPG4. For further guidance on
sewage disposal
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