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Cesspool topping - alaskanites - 08-06-2017
What is the best material to use to cover concrete cap of cesspool? Rock garden? Lawn? Shallow root plants? I'd appreciate hearing your ideas. I know the clean out needs to remain accessible.
RE: Cesspool topping - KiminPL - 08-09-2017
My place came with grass over the top. No problems in 8 years.
RE: Cesspool topping - kipannette - 08-10-2017
I put rocks on top of ours, enlarged the footprint in some areas slightly, and created a relief map of the Big Island. I oriented it to the compass and even put a little white coral on top of "Mauna Kea". It helps explain the geography tour visitors.
RE: Cesspool topping - terracore - 08-10-2017
Ours came covered in cider soil with lemon grass planted around the hatch hole, hiding it from view.
Previously we had owned a lot that was undeveloped except that it had a clearing and a cesspool. I built a bathroom over it with the concrete cesspool top being the floor of the bathroom, and a regular flushing toilet that flushed into it. The bathroom roof caught the water that went into a raised catchment that provided gravity fed-water for flushing the toilet. I had plans to add a shower in there, and potentially even a clothes washer, but we wound up going a different direction and sold that property.