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'''A Soak Pit, also known as a soakaway or leach pit, is a covered, porous-walled chamber that allows water to slowly soak into the ground. Pre-settled effluent from a Collection and Storage/Treatment or (Semi-) Centralized Treatment technology is discharged to the underground chamber from where it infiltrates into the surrounding soil.'''
Particles and biomass will eventually clog the pit and it will need to be cleaned or moved.
==AcknowledgementsReferences=={{:Acknowledgements Sanitation}}
==References * Ahrens, B. (2005). [http://cee.eng.usf.edu/peacecorps/5%20-%20Resources/Theses/Sanitation/2005Ahrens.pdf A Comparison of Wash Area and external links==Soak Pit Construction: The Changing Nature of Urban, Rural, and Peri-Urban Linkages in Sikasso, Mali]. Peace Corp, USA. Detailed construction instructions.
* AhrensMara, BDD. (20051996). A Comparison of Wash Area and Soak Pit Construction: The Changing Nature of Urban, Rural, and Peri-Urban Linkages in Sikasso, Mali. Peace Corp, USA. Available: [http://www.ceebooks.mtugoogle.educom/peacecorpsbooks/reportsabout/Brooke_Ahrens_Final_ReportLow_cost_urban_sanitation.html?id=WOgeAQAAIAAJ Low-Cost Urban Sanitation]. Wiley, Chichester, UK. pp 63–65. Dimensioning calculations.pdf (Detailed construction instructions)
* MaraPolprasert, DDC. and Rajput, VS. (19961982). Low[http://docs.watsan.net/Scanned_PDF_Files/Class_Code_3_Sanitation/323.2-Cost Urban 82SE-884.pdf Environmental SanitationReviews: Septic Tank and Septic Systems]. WileyEnvironmental Sanitation Information Center, ChichesterAIT, UKBangkok, Thailand. pp 63–6531–58. (Dimensioning calculations)
* Polprasert, C. and Rajput, VS. (1982). Environmental Sanitation Reviews==Acknowledgements=={{: Septic Tank and Septic Systems. Environmental Acknowledgements Sanitation Information Center, AIT, Bangkok, Thailand. pp 31–58.}}
