Leaching pit definition

Leaching pit means an underground pit into which waste or wastewater has or can discharge and from which the liquid has or can seep into the surrounding soil with little or no treatment. A leaching pit is a failed or prohibited system for the purposes of these regulations.
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Leaching pit means a pit or receptacle having porous walls which permit the contents to seep into the ground and which only receives effluent from a septic tank or other pre-treatment device.
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Related to Leaching pit

  • Seepage pit means an excavation deeper than it is wide that receives septic tank effluent and from which the effluent seeps from a structural internal void into the surrounding soil through the bottom and openings in the side of the pit.

  • Dumping means a private enterprise resident outside of the RSA market its goods on own initiative in the RSA at lower prices than that of the Country of Origin and which have the potential to harm the local industries in the RSA.

  • Injection well means a well into which fluids are injected. (See also "underground injection.")

  • Injection means the injection of carbon dioxide streams into the storage site;

  • Infiltration means water other than wastewater that enters a sewer system (including sewer system and foundation drains) from the ground through such means as defective pipes, pipe joints, connections, or manholes. Infiltration does not include, and is distinguished from, inflow.