Cesspool topping

[alaskanites]

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.

[KiminPL]

My place came with grass over the top. No problems in 8 years.

[kipannette]

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.

[terracore]

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.