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[Tvoivozhd <tvoivozd AT infionline.net>]

Gene GeRue wrote:

> You engineer types are occasionally useful, but you sure do like to 
> complicate things. The sink faucet at Heartwood ran clear even before 
> I installed an under-sink ceramic cartridge filter to eliminated the 
> bugs. It receives so little particulate that I need brush off its 
> exterior only about once each year. I pump directly from the stream 
> and it teems with life good and bad, not to mention lots of 
> particulates. At the edge of the stream I dug down to bedrock, set and 
> braced upright an eight-foot piece of 18-inch galvanized culvert pipe 
> with some holes busted in with the pick axe. Then I hand washed the 
> biggest stones in the stream and tossed them against the pipe. Kept 
> doing that one hot summer day. By the time I got down to about 
> fist-size stones, the pyramid around the pipe was about four feet 
> high. Then I dumped gravel around the whole thing to within six inches 
> of the top and capped it with a plastic garbage can lid, which fits 
> perfectly. Ran the water pipe in about eighteen inches down for frost 
> protection. The crude filter has worked well for many years. The 
> ceramic filter cost about a hundred dollars including piping. Chris 
> doesn't like the flavor so I will add a charcoal filter when I go 
> home. As for back flushing, I don't. Apparently the large size of the 
> filter does the job; the water flows into the check valve so slowly 
> that particulates don't migrate inward much. Perhaps microscopic 
> critters eat the particulates. Pretty plants also grow there. A living 
> filter maybe, like the designs of John Todd, of Living Machine fame.

tvoivozhd---ah-h-h, let's face it, you Beero's  have no sense of 
taste---good thing Chris is there to rein you in, or you would both be 
drinking pollywogs. and gulling guests into thinking dysentery is simply 
a good means of flushing our the digestive system.