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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“Our star was brighter perhaps when it had water in it.
Now there is no question even of that, but only
Of holding on to the hard earth so as not to get thrown off,
With an occasional dream, a vision ...”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)