User:Wburt4/sandbox

Toilet Riser

The toilet riser is a tapered polyethylene cylinder fitted with a toilet seat. The toilet riser is designed to connect to a vault where sewage is collected. It can then be pumped and transported to a sewage treatment facility. The first toilet riser patent was issued in 1980 to inventor and businessman, David B. Bogan. Bogan's company, Romtec, Inc. has manufactured waterless restrooms using toilet risers since 1977.

Waterless restrooms with vaults and toilet risers were an environmental improvement over the pit toilets that were widely in use at the time. Sewage could now be pumped and transported via a cesspool emptier -colloquially known as a "honey truck"- instead of remaining in the ground to decompose. For government and wildlife agencies such as the USFS and the NPS, the waterless restrooms with toilet risers were an immediate advantage to the preservation of lands under their jurisdiction.