Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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How does this bio system work?

---- Ken Hargesheimer <minifarms2@yahoo.com> wrote: 
> That 2,000 is nothing compared to what it would be doing.  Raises cotton 
> now.  We pay 100 of thousands of dollars each year to maintain the chemical 
> processing of sewage.  The water from the bio system is drinkable.  Please 
> do your homework on this.
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> Ken
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> --- On Mon, 6/7/10, Emery Mitchamore <emitch@att.net> wrote:
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> From: Emery Mitchamore <emitch@att.net>
> Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] sewage systems
> To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" 
> <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Monday, June 7, 2010, 8:52 AM
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> 2,000 acres is a lot of land!  Can it be used for anything else?  Like 
> raising switchgrass or cattails for biofuel?  Solar or wind farm?  Does it 
> produce compost for horticultural uses?  Can the effluent be used for 
> irrigation, catfish farming or municipal water?  If all it does is process 
> sewage, I can understand the skepticism.  Surely the proposal can be 
> sweetened with more functionality.
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> E. E. "Mitch" Mitchamore
> www.hillcountrynatives.net
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> On Jun 7, 2010, at 7:02 AM, Ken Hargesheimer wrote:
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> Several years ago when Lubbock was going to construct a new sewage system, 
> I tried to get the city to construct a bioligical system.  At that time it 
> would have taken about 2,000 acres of land.  Many cities around the world 
> use it.  Proven system. The consulant would not even consider it, of 
> course. Water leaving the system is drinkable it is so pure. Cost of 
> operating it is almost nothing.
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> Ken H
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