Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["John D'hondt" <dhondt@eircom.net>]

Maybe not over simplistic at all. We have a wetland purification area of less than 200 square meters for our house and that works perfectly by gravity alone it being terraced and on a bit of a slope. And we do collect some biomass and even edibles from our wet corner. 

You do not pump a cities effluent all over 2000 hectares, you feed it in at the highest point and collect clean water at the bottom. It might take a bit of landscaping to start with but after that it is a free run.

john

 

 

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From: Kate Spinner

To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing

Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 6:22 AM

Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] sewage systems

"Plants purify the water" is a bit over-simplistic. I think the questions posed by others are valid and that a response other than "Google it" would not be unreasonable, as not everyone has the time to Google everything that excites their curiosity. As E.E. Mitchamore said, 2,000 acres is a lot of land. Plus, pumping a city's effluent over 2,000 acres probably requires a lot of plumbing and pump stations, depending on the terrain. 

On Jun 7, 2010, at 6:28 PM, Ken Hargesheimer wrote:

Plants purify the water. Google it.  Ken

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From: pbunch@cox.net <pbunch@cox.net>
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] sewage systems
To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Cc: "Ken Hargesheimer" <minifarms2@yahoo.com>
Date: Monday, June 7, 2010, 3:51 PM

How does this bio system work?

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> 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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> 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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> 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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