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To: festus
"...Nothing wrong with an outhouse that is for sure..."

Lakeside communities are finding that traditional septics contribute an unacceptable loading of phosphates and nitrogen. Although there are remedies, nobody seems to be using one inexpensive remedy: add a calcium-carbonate-rich leaching field.

Which raises another point: Where does he drain his sink, shower, and clothes washer graywater?

13 posted on 06/10/2008 3:10:01 AM PDT by Does so (...against all enemies, DOMESTIC and foreign...)
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To: Does so

Usually if you don’t have a working commode you often don’t have a sink or shower either.

That said I’ve seen clothes washers and kitchen sink drain directly onto a lawn with no ill effects. The lawn was thickest where they drained.

Oh and you said “greywater” which infers you are an RVer ?


14 posted on 06/10/2008 6:03:27 AM PDT by festus (Tagline removed.)
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