Fosse rules 2005

[mascamps.com]

If your fosse doesn't meet the new standards, do you actually have to change it this year? What happens if you don't?

 

Arnold

 

[BJSLIV]

Each commune will eventually inspect all installations. When this is done a notice is issued specifying what if anything has to be done to conform, there is then an allowance of time to get the work completed. Until the inspection takes place there is no obligation to do anything.

However if  a Permis is issued for new work then this will automatically bring about a requirement to bring the drains up to standard on completion of the building work.

[mascamps.com]

What if one has had the inspection, the existing installation has failed (obvious to all concerned).

Does the work have to be done this year? Or, more to the point, what if you can't do it this year? ie how long can this "allowance of time" be?

 

Arnold

 

[Miki]

OK this is France Arnold !

I went to a rather angry meeting last year for our village and tempers flared all night.

Bottom line....No subventions (grants) available, all gone, sorry, was quoted by the Maire and the man from the company arranging the etudes.

People "So what if we need work done and cannot afford it"

Maire "Get credit from your bank"

People "We won't be able to get enough, we are retired and have no savings"

Maire "Mmmm" followed by a raspberry and a sucking noise, a gallic shrug and laughs all round !

People "So what will happen, if we cannot afford to do the work required"

Maire does same actions as previously.

We have cider and cold crepes and then off we toddle in to the night, none the wiser but now bonded by the fact we are probably all in the merde together !!

So there you have it Arnold, the official response from the honourable, Monsieur le Maire of our village and what will happen.

[Val_2]

It will be same reply all over la Hexagone this year.Communes have NO spare money at all to pay for people to upgrade their systems when the roads and the schools seem to be more important and they cannot justify in asking for a huge increase in Foncières to bail them out. Several people here that I have had contact with over this matter are taking it in their stride and are paying for their new installations themselves,but as you say,elderly people are just going to ignore the matter if they are on a very small pension with no hope of any bank credit.Here we have to increase the size of the station d'epuration that covers the three communes in it's range and its going to cost millions of euros,each commune paying a percentage according to number of inhabitants and then the state will pay the balance. The upheaval will be enormous and compensation will be nul to landowners who are having to have new huge waste pipes laid across their land down to the coast to take the treated product out to sea. Hence,now anyone building a new house will have to pay a hell of a lot more money with less state payment towards having their drainage and water supplies connected.

[Alexis]

As you know, we have just had a new fosse put in here at Chateau Despair.   The Mairie in their usual fashion had forgot to send the forms off for inspection before it was all filled in so the artisan had been in touch with the Powers that Be and both happened to be here at the same time as OH.

The fosse was ok.  Trouble was the puits perdu.  On our plans - two years old - everything was marked out so we had to have one.  Losing it here! 

Anyway, from now on, new laws etc., it is not possible to just have your waste water trickling into a field, waste land etc.  You have to have a very expensive pump to re-pump it back up the garden and into a drain.  If the nearest drain happens to be at the other side of the road from your house, you have to pay for the road to be dug up and then made good.

Big money.

We passed in the end but by the skin of our teeth.  I can't remember the department who have to inspect but it is agricultural. 

Mind you, our inspector is from Nantes which is a good two hours away.  Don't know why.  The artisan said this is the only commune he has problems in.  All the other inspectors are local.