Posted on 01/12/2004 2:26:45 PM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
Pa. - The overseers at Fallingwater released plans to fix the source of a consistent complaint by visitors to Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpiece — the bathrooms. Composting toilets near the home, about 70 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, have failed to work properly and have left many of the 140,000 visitors each year talking about the aroma as well as the architecture. A new system, which has been six years in the making, calls for nearly five miles of underground piping and a waste disposal system intended to protect the pristine environment around Bear Run, the stream that flows underneath the home. Micro-organisms are used in the new system to break down waste, according to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, which oversees the property. Fallingwater was completed in 1937 for department store magnate Edgar Kaufmann Sr., who used it as a vacation home.
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