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Design of ST With Soak Pit
Design of ST With Soak Pit
• Soak Pit
• Dispersion Trenches
• Sub-Surface Irrigation
• Leaching cess-pools.
• Treated in Trickling Filters.
• Recycling
Need of Soak Pit
The water in septic tank is not pure that is coming out
from a primary treatment chamber. The effluent water
which is coming out of this units is called grey water .
Most of the waste water management system needs a
Soak Pit for partial treatment and this partial treatment
of efflluent water through a Soak Pit is a safe way of
discharging the water into the surroundings.
Soak Pit
Septic Tank
Soak Pit
A Soak Pit is a covered , porous-walled chamber that
allows water to slowly soak into the ground. The smaller
Particles are digested by
the microorganisms which
are a sustainable process of
degradation. The filtered
water is then discharged
out through the porous
wall of the Soak Pit.
Design of Soak Pit
• A layer of sand and fine gravel is spread across the
bottom to help disperse the flow.
• Depth should be between 1.5 and 4m deep, but never
less than 1.5m above the ground water table.
• The Soak Pit is filled with coarse rocks and gravel.
• The rocks and gravel will prevent the walls from
collapsing , but will still provide adequate space for the
waste water.
Working of Soak Pit
• As waste water percolates through the soil from the
soak pit , small particles are filtered out by the soil
matrix and organics are digested by micro-organism.