On-site sewage management inspection checklist

Template Information

The hills shire council

Category: general

Template Questions

  • Time at beginning of inspection Date
  • Number of bedrooms
  • Number of residents
  • Soil type
  • Inspection details
  • Disposal area
  • Performance standards
  • Buffer distances
  • Spray irrigation
  • Subsurface & trickle irrigation
  • Absorption disposal methods
  • Tanks
  • AWTS & Irrigation area
  • Septic tanks, biological systems: Absorption trenches, evapotranspiration beds and mounds
  • Pump-out
  • Comments
  • Inspection result
  • Time at end of inspection Date
  • In 1997, an incident occurred where wastewater was found to be discharged into Wallis Lake, near Port
  • There are a number of simple things that you can do to protect your on-site sewage management system:
  • If today’s inspection found that your system is not operating satisfactorily, it may not mean that yo
  • The design of an effluent disposal system is based upon two key factors - the amount of wastewater ge
  • The most common effluent disposal methods are absorption trenches (generally associated with septicta
  • To determine the size of absorption trench required, the following formula is used:Length of trench =
  • Other important factors to take into consideration when designing an absorption trench are:• individu
  • To determine the size of spray irrigation area required, the following formula is used:Area = weekly
  • Further information is available on Council’s website at www.thehills.nsw.gov.au or call Council duri