Re: SB: Greywater (was Regarding Sun Mar)

[Sherwood Botsford <sbotsford@sjsa.ab.ca>]

On Monday 26 August 2002 09:35 pm, Keith Rowe wrote:
: Kim and I bought and used their largest model for a few years
: when living in our trailer and building the house. Our thought
: was that we would have a composting toilet and then a
: separate, simple system for grey water. We would then save
: money and, of course, be that much more environmentally
: friendly...or so we thought.


Here, if you are on 10 acres or more you can pump out the second 
side of the septic tank onto the ground.  This means  no septic 
field.  There are requirements about how far from the house, 
nearest creek, and property lines, but it can't be very great to 
fit on 10 acres.  This would be a very good system for greywater.

If, in addition to this, you put a a stack of strawbales at the 
discharge pipe, the liquid would soak into the bales which would
provide a lot of surface for bacteria to do their thing.

I'm surprised that this works, and doesn't end up contaminating 
everything, but it seems that most of the harmful bacteria in 
crap really don't like fresh air and sunlight.

My brother, who is a microbiologist, commented that it sounded 
great until you get someone in the house who is a carrier for 
hepatitis.  The discharge area should be fenced to keep out the 
the dog and the kids.

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