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Descriptor English: Septic Tanks
Descriptor Spanish: Fosas Sépticas
Descriptor fosas sépticas
Entry term(s) fosa séptica
pozos sépticos
tanques sépticos
Scope note: Unidad de sedimentación y digestión, por lo general cerrada, con un flujo horizontal y continuo, con una velocidad y tiempo de retención que permite la sedimentación en el fondo de la materia en suspensión, donde es retenida y transformada por la descomposición anaeróbica en sustancias mineralizadas, líquidas o gaseosas.
Descriptor Portuguese: Fossas Sépticas
Descriptor French: Fosses Septiques
Entry term(s): Cesspools
Septic Chambers
Septic Ditches
Septic Tank
Septic Trenches
Tree number(s): SP4.606.806.945.750.207.799.525.321
Scope note: A sedimentation and digestion unit, generally closed with horizontal and continuos flow; its velocity and retention time must allow the sedimentation of suspended matter on the bottom where they are kept and transformed into mineralized, liquid or gaseous substances by anaerobic decomposition. (Free translation from the original: Brasil. Agência Nacional de Águas, 2014)
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
Related: Anaerobic Digestion DeCS
Digesters DeCS
Imhoff Tanks DeCS
Percolation DeCS
DeCS ID: 25558
Unique ID: DDCS025558
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Septic Tanks - Preferred
Concept UI FD00058419
Scope note A sedimentation and digestion unit, generally closed with horizontal and continuos flow; its velocity and retention time must allow the sedimentation of suspended matter on the bottom where they are kept and transformed into mineralized, liquid or gaseous substances by anaerobic decomposition. (Free translation from the original: Brasil. Agência Nacional de Águas, 2014)
Preferred term Septic Tanks
Entry term(s) Cesspools
Septic Chambers
Septic Ditches
Septic Tank
Septic Trenches



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