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Sewage (or domestic sewage, domestic wastewater, municipal wastewater) is a type of wastewater that is produced by a community of people. It is typically transported through a sewer system.: 175  Sewage consists of wastewater discharged from residences and from commercial, institutional and public facilities that exist in the locality.: 10  Sub-types of sewage are greywater (from sinks, bathtubs, showers, dishwashers, and clothes washers) and blackwater (the water used to flush toilets, combined with the human waste that it flushes away). Sewage also contains soaps and detergents. Food waste may be present from dishwashing, and food quantities may be increased where garbage disposal units are used. In regions where toilet paper is used rather than bidets, that paper is also added to the sewage. Sewage contains macro-pollutants and micro-pollutants, and may also incorporate some municipal solid waste and pollutants from industrial wastewater.
Sewage usually travels from a building's plumbing either into a sewer, which will carry it elsewhere, or into an onsite sewage facility. Collection of sewage of several households together usually takes places in either sanitary sewers or combined sewers. The former is designed to exclude stormwater flows whereas the latter is designed to also take stormwater. The production of sewage generally corresponds to the water consumption. A range of factors influence water consumption and hence the sewage flowrates per person. These include: Water availability (the opposite of water scarcity), water supply options, climate (warmer climates may lead to greater water consumption), community size, economic level of the community, level of industrialization, metering of household consumption, water cost and water pressure.: 20 The main parameters in sewage that are measured to assess the sewage strength or quality as well as treatment options include: solids, indicators of organic matter, nitrogen, phosphorus, and indicators of fecal contamination.: 33  These can be considered to be the main macro-pollutants in sewage. Sewage contains pathogens which stem from fecal matter. The following four types of pathogens are found in sewage: pathogenic bacteria, viruses, protozoa (in the form of cysts or oocysts) and helminths (in the form of eggs). In order to quantify the organic matter, indirect methods are commonly used: mainly the Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) and the Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD).: 36 Management of sewage includes collection and transport for release into the environment, after a treatment level that is compatible with the local requirements for discharge into water bodies, onto soil or for reuse applications.: 156  Disposal options include dilution (self-purification of water bodies, making use of their assimilative capacity if possible), marine outfalls, land disposal and sewage farms. All disposal options may run risks of causing water pollution.

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  1. Zach054

    Toilet waste cemented.

    Hi Anyone seen this sort of setup before? Not sure if it will be like a clay connector but cemented up ? Never come across it before Any advice be appreciated before I chip away at it.
  2. G

    New toilet waste question

    Hi all, I had this installed by a plumber the other day and if I’m honest, I’m not happy really. All in flexis when i think it could have been rigid and solvent welded . Then a dodgy installed clip at the bend. I kinda went with it at the time but it doesn’t seem right and I’m going to call...
  3. P

    Convert vertical toilet waste

    I currently have a floor standing pan in a downstairs cloakroom. The waste is vertical about 10mm on the inside of a 2- brick external wall. As I'm completely retiling the room, can I fit a connector that runs horizontally behind the current waste below floor level( by cutting off some of the...
  4. J

    running toilet waste pipe inside stud wall.

    Renovating an upstairs bathroom. Void between floor boards and ceiling below is too narrow to hide the waste pipe from a wall hanging toilet. My plan is to build stud wall with sufficient width to hide the 100mm toilet waste pipe into the existing stack. In practice this means extending the...
  5. J

    Toilet waste pipe under floor

    Hi guys after a bit of advice .... An old close coupled pan will be replaced with a new close coupled pan. With the waste line been quite far from the wall, the old one was attached to the waste using a really long flexi pan connector , bent at an awkward angle backwards then up through the...
  6. V

    How to open up toilet waste pipe please

    How to open this toilet pipe please? I need to retrieve a key I dropped down here. I think its sitting in the grooves of the flexible pipe. Will this pipe unscrew easily, I can probably untwist it OK. But then after is it easy to reconnect and ensure its water tight? Any advice gratefully...
  7. F

    Need advice on joining toilet to a low soil pipe

    Hi everyone, I'm renovation my own house, and I'm just moving on to the bathroom. I've realised that the soil pipe is too low, the bottom of it being only a couple of cm off the floor, whereas the bottom of the toilet pan waste is around 14cm from the floor. I've tried using a 60mm offset pan...
  8. A

    Ground floor toilet waste location

    Busy rebuilding an old bathroom in an old cottage. Bathroom is downstairs and on removing the toilet I can see it goes straight into the ground (see photo). We did want to site the loo about 3ft to the right but cannot for the an extension to the pipe through the cabinets. I could box off the...
  9. D

    Toilet Waste Not Aligning With Wall Hung Unit

    Hi Everyone Just looking for some advice with this issue I have with a wall hung toilet I am adding to my bathroom. The problem I have is that when I set the ideal height of the toilet (410mm when sitting on toilet) and taking into account tiles and hardibacker (approx 30mm?), the waste pipe...
  10. N

    How to patch a hole in a toilet waste pipe?

    Hi folks, I’ve (until now, successfully...) done all the first fix plumbing on my newly configured bathroom in my flat only to notice that I’ve somehow put a tiny hole (maybe 3 or 4mm wide) in the flexible toilet waste pipe I installed. The floor is now tiled (underfloor heating, cement board...
  11. A

    Uk .. Old toilet waste capped and concreted over.. trying to find

    Hi I removed a high level toilet from my garage 28 years ago... From memory ..i capped the soil pipe that was coming from below the concrete floor and then concreted the floor smooth... I am now trying to reinstall a toilet.... The problem is that i can see an oblong in the concrete and have...
  12. W

    Toilet outlet vent information needed

    I’v [ it goes Regards I’ve been at this property for 22 years, and I have just notice I don’t vent pipe [ it goes straight into the manhole ] or any valves on my toilet system. I have never had any issues such as smells drainage or odours. It’s a ground floor toilet and the only one...
  13. M

    Leak from toilet waste pipe from floor

    I’d be grateful for some guidance on the best way to fix a leak from my toilet. The leak doesn’t come from the toilet so presuming it’s the seal next to the floor and involves the 4inch waste pipe. I am replacing the toilet anyway and presume I need to replace some kind of flange at the base...
  14. G

    New toilet connection to underground.

    Hi all. I have a room off my downstairs utility room which when I bought the house was described by the estate agent as a shower room. In reality it had a wash basin and a shower cubicle with waste through an outside wall that discharged over an outside sink. A person with disabilities lived...
  15. H

    Toilet waste lower than soil pipe

    We've just had a new toilet installed and the new toilet's waste pipe is lower than the cast iron soil pipe. My installer has used a flexi pipe to connect the toilet waste upwards to the soil pipe. Am I right to be concerned about the upwards connection, and the use of a flexi pipe? The cast...
  16. Kimber

    Underground toilet waste

    Hi we need to move the downstairs toilet, as part of some rennovations. Only thing is, on digging out the old clay pipe, it actually turned about 45 degs in the floor meaning the existing pipe is pointing in the wrong direction for the new toilet. I’ve managed to connect it, but I’m a little...
  17. A

    Toilet waste help please

    Hello I've just joined after having a browse on here. I need a bit of advice if possible please. Basically I am hoping to add a new toilet to a garage which is detached from the house, about five metres away. But the main soil pipe is at the front of the house which is about twelve metres...
  18. tmm

    Looking for advice regarding a sink waste pipe behind toilet waste pipe.

    Hi My sink waste pipe is behind the toilet waste pipe and i need to somehow get my sink waste over the top or under my toilet waste pipe. My sink is going to be fitted other side of bath approx 8 foot from main waste outlet. If i fit a 90 degree bend up and over and back down to the floor and...
  19. S

    Concertina toilet waste pipe disintegrated within days of fitting and not even in use?!

    Hello All Apologies for making my first thread a cry for help but this is perplexing! New bathroom is being installed. This morning, about 10 days since the concertina style waste pipe was fitted, the plumber let water in to the new toilet cistern and flushed it. I realised it was leaking...
  20. S

    Toilet waste pipe re location if poss

    Hi i would like to move my toilet in my bathroom so i can change the layout to get more space the waste pipe is not in the corner off the room like normal can extend the waste pipe and put a 90 bend on it i posted a drawing of where i would like it to go The green arrow would be the new waste...
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