Re: SB: Gravity fed domestic water system

["Ben Polley" <info@harvesthomes.ca>]

Hi David,

This thread may already have been exhausted but some quick notes for you:
-In Ontario a gravity fed domestic water system (Class 9 I think???) is not 
subject to some of the same conditions for waste disposal that would be a 
conventional system.  For example, I beleive that you require only a small 
leaching field as opposed to a full septic bed (assuming other managment of 
black water such as dry composting toilet)
-Try contacting Chris Magwood (Ed of The Last Straw) regarding his house's 
system in Madoc, Ontario which is basically as you describe exceptthat I 
think he has a pump feed from the ground level cistern to his 
overhead 'pressure' tank in the attic each night.  Something like that.  
-We will be demonstrating a gravity fed domestic water system at Hillsburgh, 
Ontario's Everdale Environmental Learning Centre for Home Alive! -  a living 
demonstration home.  Feel free to contact me this winter when the design 
details are complete.

Good luck.

Cheers,
Ben Polley
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