Sewers

If a house doesn't have a septic system, what has to be hooked up to it to get rid of the waste?

I've been using search engines and stuff to try to answer this question, but all that keeps coming up is different types of septic systems. Does anybody know an alternative to using a septic system?

Public Comments

1. public sewer. Do you live in/near a city? You're probably in a public sewer system.
2. If you live in a city generally the city provides city sewage removal. They pump it elsewhere.
3. If the house is in a neighborhood there may be a sewer system. In the street there will be manhole covers if you see those a septic system can not be used because you cant get a permit for one. You could have a tank outside the house but at $800 a pop to have it pumped that would be a high priced option. Any house that was built had to have some kind of waste disposal system in order to get an occupancy permit signed (the original permit that allowed the owners to move in.) The only 2 options I am aware of is a sewer system or septic system.
4. There is no other way. You need to have either a septic system or connected to town/city sewer system. It is illegal to allow waste to flow out and not connected to an approved type septic system. You can and will be fined like crazy and sued by the EPA.
5. in the country you have a septic system. in the city you have a public sewer.
6. If you have no septic system, you must install a holding tank , [ usually fiberglass or pre-cast concrete ]and hire the local " honey wagon " to vacuum it empty, when full. Try to locate it where it is easy to back a big truck to, but not where it can be driven over by any vehicles, if possible.
7. 1. public sewage system 2.septic tank with field 3.septic holding tank 4.cess pool(a large pit in the ground) 5.crazy hill-billy rig I think cess pools are illegal in the US, but I could be wrong. the reason I say crazy hill-billy rig is because you just know that there is some backwoods guy who figured something out. annother option may include one of those cess pool systems that recover the methane gas to use as fuel.
8. ok.... Cronos spelled out all your options..... (nice job, cronos!)..... what are you trying to accomplish? if you can tell us what you are trying to do, i think we all (good answers, all above me.....) get you where you want to go...... did you just buy some land out in the country and want to build a house where there is no sewage connections? did you inherit an old house with no sewage system?