The Historical 'Soak Pit'
A year before we moved into a house which is an old British building. The house has a typical ‘A’ roof architectural style with chimneys and a fireplace which is much needed in a hill station. The house also has wooden and glass wall separations and even a small well at the entrance. Unlike modern houses, the maintenance cost of such old houses is a little bit higher but such houses are very rare and heaven to someone who is a vintage enthusiast. What I didn’t know about the house before moving in here is its old sewage system. This sewage disposal system was in use even before the municipal sewage lines were constructed. Most of the houses in the past had similar sewage systems. Such sewage systems which were in use before a proper town planning also had social problems arising out of it. This soak pit system is a process of collecting the sewage waste from various sewage pipelines that flows into a large single pit called a soak pit. There are two types of soak pits one is the single
