Where Portable Toilet Waste Goes Under Kentucky Rules

What a permitted septage site is

A permitted septage site is a facility that holds a permit to operate for the storage or disposal of domestic septage, and it must follow the site procedures and inspections the regulation sets.

A site like this receives septage from many haulers, and its permit sets the conditions under which it does so. The site must follow its own procedures and submit to inspection, and the regulation sets out what those are.

A customer does not need to know the site's internal rules. A customer does need to know that the site holds a permit and that the hauler uses it.

Questions about the site to ask the hauler

Ask the hauler the name of the site, whether it holds a permit to operate, and how the visit is recorded against the site, and expect a plain answer to each.

A hauler who names the site and can show its permit has done the work that matters. A hauler who says the load goes to a site it will not name should not be booked for work that a venue or a permit office may later check.

Ask the hauler to put the site on the visit record. That single line is the strongest evidence of where the waste went.

• The name of the disposal site
• Confirmation that the site holds a permit
• The site named on each visit record
• A written answer if the question is unclear

Why the site matters for an event

For an event with a permit file the disposal site is part of the record a venue or an office may ask for, so the site is named in the plan as well as on each visit.

A Metro file or a venue's own check may ask where the event's waste went. The plan names the site the hauler uses, and each visit record repeats it, so the file answers the question without a second search.

A change of site during the event is recorded on the plan, and the organiser is told before the next visit.

Keeping a site record for the file

A site record that names each disposal site, each visit and the permit held by that site gives a permit office what it needs without a second search.

The record lists the visit, the unit, the hauler and the site, with the site's permit reference where the hauler has it. A file built this way answers the office's question in one page.

Where a site changes during a long job, the change is recorded with its date, so the file shows where each load went.

What to do if a site's permit is in doubt

If the hauler cannot confirm the permit of the site its load goes to, the booking is paused until the answer is in writing, rather than the job going ahead on a verbal reassurance.

A permit that cannot be confirmed is a gap in the record, and a gap is what a venue or an office will notice later. The customer asks the hauler to name the site, the permit and the office that holds the record, and holds the booking until the answer arrives.

A written answer is kept with the booking. If the site later changes or its permit lapses, the customer is told in writing, and the next visit names the new site on the record.