Holding tank can also refer to a sealed, buried tank used to hold waste from a house or other building. Such a tank is referred to in the U.K. as a cesspit, and as a septic tank in the U.S. A Holding Tank Sewage System (HTSS) is an alternative to a conventional on-site sewage system with very special and limited applications. Simply, the HTSS provides a means to collect and temporarily store sewage from a facility or dwelling, for subsequent removal and transport to an approved treatment and disposal site. The required storage capacity of a holding tank depends upon two items: daily sewage flow, and available or optimal pumping service frequency.
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“I found a dimpled spider, fat and white,
On a white heal-all, holding up a moth
Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth—
Assorted characters of death and blight”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)