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Waste water treatment systems
This is a query for those who have waste water treatment systems (and like
having a fiddle with them!) for how many hours each day does your primary pump run, and with what frequency? The primary pump is the one which circulates the waste within the system, and aerates it, as opposed to the secondary discharge pump, which chucks it out into your garden. |
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Waste water treatment systems
Pat wrote:
for how many hours each day does your primary pump run, and with what frequency? I've forgotten since it was installed. Our is a Septech ( www.septech.com.au ) - the specs are probably on the website coz I can't get to where we stored the info at the mo. Touch wood, it runs like a dream so far (only a year old though) and the drippers are still in their temporary spots until I get some gardens in. |
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Linda,
Our serviceman says ours runs for 15 min then stops for 5. Geoff "Linda H" wrote in message u... Pat wrote: for how many hours each day does your primary pump run, and with what frequency? I've forgotten since it was installed. Our is a Septech ( www.septech.com.au ) - the specs are probably on the website coz I can't get to where we stored the info at the mo. Touch wood, it runs like a dream so far (only a year old though) and the drippers are still in their temporary spots until I get some gardens in. |
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Geoff & Heather wrote:
Linda, Our serviceman says ours runs for 15 min then stops for 5. Geoff Oh okay. I wonder how many times a day it does that. I looked at the Septech website after responding to Pat's question and that said it can run for about 6 hrs a day! There are only 2 adults most of the time at home (1 adult child only home weekends) and ours doesn't appear to run all that often but it's very quiet so I only notice it when near it. Also, I gather Pat was wondering on the costs of running them. We've been in our new place less than a year and we took a lot of care considering running costs of power and appliances for the new house (we have no gas mains in our area) but admittedly we forgot all about the running costs of the waste system. We had to have it anyway but we were incredibly surprised at how very low our power bills have been and that is with the treatment plant tacked on. In fact until now I forgot about its running costs. So from what I gather treatment plants don't cost much to run at all. Treatment plants are a brilliant thing. I reckon if people are building on a large enough block in the suburbs and can allow room for the drippers they'll be glad they installed it (about 200 square metres under mulch was the minimum requirement for ours.) They'd never really have to water gardens again. I don't know the regulations for average sized blocks though. Everybody in our road has them except for two older properties. |
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Linda,
I think ours runs all day, but the aerator is only an overgrown aquarium pump. That runs for 15 min then stops and the water settles, then the sludge pumps goes for 5 min to move the settle material into the next tank. We have a 3/4 acre block with just the two of us so the recycled water is not enough to keep the whole garden going - unless we take really long showers :-) The clean water pumps out 25 litres at a time as that chamber fills up. However it is great for the bromeliads and the shade garden which likes the short bursts of intermittent water throughout the day. I reckon if the space is big enough and the soil suitable more people should have the treatment systems. Unfortunately our neighbour have 7 people living in the house on a much smaller block and slightly above ours, so if he doesn't keep all his sprinklers working or we have heavy rain we get the run off. Problem is we have about 12 inches of good top soil then deep clay. He is also prone to not servicing his system so at times the quality of the water coming out is suspect. That's the downside - when people don't look after their systems. Cheers, Geoff "Linda H" wrote in message ... Geoff & Heather wrote: Linda, Our serviceman says ours runs for 15 min then stops for 5. Geoff Oh okay. I wonder how many times a day it does that. I looked at the Septech website after responding to Pat's question and that said it can run for about 6 hrs a day! There are only 2 adults most of the time at home (1 adult child only home weekends) and ours doesn't appear to run all that often but it's very quiet so I only notice it when near it. Also, I gather Pat was wondering on the costs of running them. We've been in our new place less than a year and we took a lot of care considering running costs of power and appliances for the new house (we have no gas mains in our area) but admittedly we forgot all about the running costs of the waste system. We had to have it anyway but we were incredibly surprised at how very low our power bills have been and that is with the treatment plant tacked on. In fact until now I forgot about its running costs. So from what I gather treatment plants don't cost much to run at all. Treatment plants are a brilliant thing. I reckon if people are building on a large enough block in the suburbs and can allow room for the drippers they'll be glad they installed it (about 200 square metres under mulch was the minimum requirement for ours.) They'd never really have to water gardens again. I don't know the regulations for average sized blocks though. Everybody in our road has them except for two older properties. |
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