GB/T 38837-2020Specification for operation and maintenance of rural household latrine with three-compartment septic tank (English PDF)
农村三格式户厕运行维护规范
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Issued by
SAMR; SAC
Level / Type
National · Recommended
Issue date
April 28, 2020
Implementation date
April 28, 2020
Scope
GB/T 38837-2020 is the English-translated version of 农村三格式户厕运行维护规范.
GB/T 38837-2020 stipulates the basic requirements, use requirements, manure management, maintenance requirements, emergency treatment and management services for rural three-format household toilets, and clause 1 states that it applies to the operation and maintenance of those toilets.
The contents list nine clauses: Scope, Normative references, Terms and definitions, Basic requirements, Requirements for use, Manure management, Maintenance requirements, Emergency Response and Management services.
Clause 3 gives four definitions.
Nightsoil sewage is the mixture of faeces and urine excreted by the human body together with its flushing sewage; the three-compartment septic tank is a storage and harmless-treatment facility or equipment made of three pools connected in series, which removes and kills parasite eggs and other pathogens by sedimentation and anaerobic digestion in a closed environment and controls the breeding of mosquitoes and flies, with a note distinguishing integral tanks made in the factory from plastic, glass fibre reinforced plastic or similar materials from those built on site in brickwork, cast-in-place concrete or precast concrete; the rural three-format household toilet is made up of a toilet house, sanitary ware and a three-compartment septic tank and is used by rural households that treat toilet faeces harmlessly in such a tank, with a note separating toilet houses attached to or integrated with the dwelling from detached ones; and the harmless disposal of nightsoil sewage is the processing technology that reduces, removes or kills pathogens in the faeces, controls the breeding of mosquitoes and flies, prevents the spread of foul odour and brings the treatment products to a state fit for land treatment and agricultural resource use.
The first requirement in clause 4 is that the body responsible for operation and maintenance be specified, with villagers able to inspect and repair the household toilet and arrange the collection and transport of faeces either by self-maintenance or by entrusted maintenance.
Clause 2 cites GB 7959, GB 19379 and the Disinfection Technical Specification issued as Weifa Jianfa [2002] No. 282. The standard is proposed and managed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the People's Republic of China.
The draft on the source page breaks off inside 4.1, so clauses 5 to 9 are known only by their titles. It was issued on 2020-04-28 and has applied since 2020-04-28.
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Document preview — GB/T 38837-2020
National Standard of the People's Republic of China
- ICS
- 03.080.01
- Classification
- C 51
Issued by: State Administration for Market Regulation; Standardization Administration of the PRC
Contents
- Foreword
- 1 Scope
- 2 Normative references
- 3 Terms and definitions
- 4 Basic requirements
- 5 Requirements for use
- 6 Manure management
- 7 Maintenance requirements
- 8 Emergency Response
- 9 Management services
Foreword
This standard was drafted in accordance with the rules given in GB/T 1.1-2009.
This standard was proposed and managed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the People's Republic of China.
1 Scope
This standard stipulates the basic requirements, use requirements, manure management, maintenance requirements, emergency treatment and Manage services and other content.
This standard applies to the operation and maintenance of rural three-format household toilets.
2 Normative references
The following documents are essential for the application of this document. For dated references, only the dated version applies to this document. For the cited documents without date, the latest version (including all amendments) applies to this document.
GB 7959 Sanitary requirements for harmless feces
GB 19379 Sanitary Code for Rural Household Toilets
Disinfection Technical Specification (Weifa Jianfa [2002] No. 282)
3 Terms and definitions
The following terms and definitions apply to this document.
3.1 Nightsoil sewage
A mixture of feces and urine excreted by the human body and its flushing sewage.
3.2 Three-compartment septic tank
It is composed of three pools connected in series, and through the process of fecal sedimentation and anaerobic digestion in a closed environment, the parasite eggs are removed and killed, etc.
Pathogen, harmless treatment and storage facility or equipment for controlling the breeding of mosquitoes and flies.
Note: The three-slot septic tank includes integral type and existing type. Use plastic or glass fiber reinforced plastics and other materials to produce three-layer septic tank products in the factory as a whole;
The three-slot septic tank constructed on-site by means of brickwork, cast-in-place concrete or concrete prefabricated parts is currently built.
3.3 Rural three-format household toilet
It is composed of toilet houses, sanitary ware, three-slot septic tanks, etc., and is used by rural households who use three-slot septic tanks to harmlessly treat toilet feces. WC.
Note: The toilet house is divided into an attached building and a stand-alone. Those built in residential houses or integrated with the main living houses are of additional construction type; those built outside residential houses and other living houses are Detached.
3.4 Harmless disposal of fecal sewage
Reduce, remove or kill pathogens in the feces, control the breeding of mosquitoes and flies, prevent the spread of foul odor, and make the treatment products reach the land treatment Processing technology with the utilization of agricultural resources.
4 Basic requirements
4.1
The main body of operation and maintenance shall be specified. The villagers can carry out inspections and repairs of the household toilets and the collection and transportation office of feces by self-maintenance or entrusted maintenance.
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