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Volume 1, Issue 2
1 February 1983
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Review Article| February 01 1983

Septic tanks

CWM McDowell
CWM McDowell
Senior Partner of M. McDowell Co Partnership, British and International Consulting Engineers
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-6844
Print ISSN: 0263-080X
© MCB UP Limited
1983
Structural Survey (1983) 1 (2): 164–169.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb006157

Septic tanks are used for small populations where there is no available normal sewerage system. Few are constructed nowadays and the majority of those in existence may well have been in existence for a considerable period of time.

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