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Throwing out baby ...
Mike wrote:
In article , swroot writes FWIW the smell was that of the finest quality rich black bottom-of-the-pond sludge. And when we washed the container out (about once each summer) that's what we found in the bottom of it: lovely black gunge. This was just from a household's use I assume? Yes, specifically the bath waste: two showers/day. Best advice I can give is to use it as quickly as possible, or find some way of filtering the organics (soap, dead skin, hair, etc) out before you store it. I have heard/read of people who feed their grey wastewater through a reed bed purification system, then into a (presumably large!) garden pond. Rather a problem there, in that I am thinking the changing rooms/showers of a football club :-( I don't see the room for a reed bed or large pond! I have seen tv footage of a reedbed filtrations system running through troughs attached to the exterior of building in Holland(?). But I agree it's complex. There are people who specialise in this sort of thing. Before you give up on it completely, I suggest you ask about it on uk.environment, or perhaps contact some environmental consultants. We stored ours *briefly* (ie overnight) in a water butt. Leave it two days and it started to smell. I can't think of any reason that storage in a sealed tank would prevent the stuff rotting, as I'd guess the process is anaerobic anyway (Nick?). A sealed tank would mean only you didn't smell it until it started flowing out onto the garden. On your information I think I am going to give the 'Grey Water' idea a miss, but will offer the advice to those who have the final say when it gets that far. Thanks It's not a dead loss. Perhaps. You could try to ensure that the grey waste system is plumbed in such wise that you could divert some of it directly to a hose/hoses supplying nearby flowerbeds/landscaping. It's not at all noxious when it's fresh, simply leaves a little bit of dried grey soap scum on the soil surface if you leave the hose in the same place for too long. regards sarah -- "Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth." Aldous Huxley |
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