soak away

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I have a soak away taking rear roofs of property and extension. After talking with the Water board they have said i could run direct to the main sewer.
My question is, i could do this in two ways.
1) dig down and find the pipes then divert to a manhole approx 2 metres away.
2) easier option dig down the side of soak away, put new pipe in from there to main sewer leaving original pipes as they are.

Would option 2 release water from the soak away?
 
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Go for option 1.

Find the pipe, fit a y junction and a trapped gulley, otherwise you will have smells coming back from a combined system.
 
What fit the trap gulley at the downpipe on side of house?
Why the y connection?
Another option i thought about was just dig a trench from soakaway to manhole fill with rubble creating a type of french drain, just extend soakaway to manhole.
 
With running the pipe from a soakaway to the manhole you will have all sorts of stuff going into the manhole and could cause a blockage, plus how do you stop the smell from the foul drains.
If theres a pipe you can connect onto, that already runs into the manhole, its just a case of cutting into it, connect a Y junction then run it to the trapped gulley.
If not the run a new pipe into the manhole, you still need the trapped gulley to prevent smell coming back from foul drains.
 
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Hi, yes it was to run the pipe from the existing straight to manhole. Cut hole in side of manhole to poke the new pipe into. ( brick manhole).
So i guess i need to remove some patio, dig down and fit a trapped gully.Or put the gully near the manhole .
 
Gully goes at the bottom of your down pipe, then find the pipe that runs into your manhole branch into it with a y junction. Best not to break into manhole.
 

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