e mickey....but there are no acceptable tanks or 'seepage beds' here.
We installed a septic system for a rural property (3 bdrm house) in Ontario.
Cost us over $10,000. and we needed to install a 100 foot weeping tile bed filled with gravel and sand to filter the 'seepage'.
Here in Juan Dolio they install a tank then from the overflow hole near the top of the tank the put a pipe that drains to the hole dug down to the water table. When the hole plugs up you either clean it out (messy, smelly and only last a little while) or you dig a new hole! One of the nearby resorts spent one season digging about 9 or 10 'holes' because the ground was so saturated the 'holes' (they call them filtrantes or some such) kept plugging up shortly after being dug.
Also when a septic tank becomes full, responsible owners have a truck come and pump them out. Irresponsible owners call a local guy who comes in at night, empties the tank with buckets, digs a whole in the sand on the beach and dumps the waste into the whole then when the tank is empty, he puts the sand back on top of the waste and disappears until needed again (yes we've seen it being done this way-one of the not so pleasant aspects off being a night owl!)
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