=== Septic Tanks and Pit Toilets ===
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{| cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" border="0" style="width: 100%"|-| According to the latest Philippine census, San Fernando City has a population of about 114,800 people in 24,140 households. Of these households, the survey estimates that 88% rely on septic tanks, while 12% utilize pit toilets.<br/>
This equates to 21,120 families that utilize septic tanks as their primary wastewater treatment device. The survey also determined that 10% of the families share septic tanks with their neighbors, leaving a total of approximately 19,000 residential septic tanks in the city. This is the baseline starting point for developing the septage management program that will desludge the city's residential septic tanks on a rotating 5 year cycle.
It should be noted that a small number (less than 1%)of families claimed to use communal toilets, and an even smaller number indicated that they had no access to sanitary facilities at all.
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=== Accessibility for Desludging ===
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{| cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" border="0" style="width: 100%"|-| An important goal of the assessment was to determine the number of residential septic tanks that are accessible by desludging trucks. San Fernando City has many rural and coastal areas that are not easily accessible by car or truck. In addition, it was noted in the survey that some houses are located far off the road, sometimes in excess of the length of a standard desludging truck hose.
The assessors were trained to identify these issues and rate homes as being readily accessible, difficult to access or inaccessible.
The results show that of the 19,000 residential septic tanks, almost 5,900 fall within the categories of being either inaccessible or difficult to access by septage truck. The remainder: 13,110 residential septic tanks that are considered readily accessible.
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=== Septic Tanks and Cleanouts ==={| cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" border="0" style="width: 100%"|-| In the Philippines, septic tanks are often located under the kitchen or comfort room to allow for easy drainage. Unfortunately, in some instances, septic tank cleanouts have been covered by flooring or may have never existed. In still other cases, septic tanks are believed to be present, but the location of the septic tank is not known.
The results of the assessment show that 20% of the septic tanks do not have clean-outs, or if they do, the location of the cleanout was not known.
However, for the purposes of determining desludgability, those tanks with a minimum of one cleanout were considered desludgable. When combined with the number of tanks that can be accessed by the truck, the total number of readily accessible and currently desludgable septic tanks is 10,488. This will represent the Phase 1 of the septage collection and treatment program. The remaining tanks will be desludged during subsequent phases.
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=== Other Interesting Survey Results ===
