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  • From: Kathy Carter-White <kathycarterwhite@earthlink.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Urine on the roof
  • Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 21:53:07 -0600

Nancy Jack Todd was a guest at the Sustainability Institute this fall, and brought slides all the way back to the '70's about OceanArks' work. What you see on the homepage is a lagoon with waterplants suspended and floating on the surface using a grid. You might use something like chickenwire to plug the plants thru. She related that they just began experimenting with different plants and acquatic organisms and replacing them until they found what worked. Sequences of aeration, turbulence, settling and sunlight are all valuable degradation techniques if you can incorporate them. I don't know about the salt... controlling it thru dilution? So, the more disproportionate the volume to the area you can integrate, the more treatment activity you'll want. Waterfalls! River cane, bamboo, cattails! Courseworks and canals! What a great project. Send pics? Kathy, Oklahoma






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