permaculture

["len organicpc" <gardenlen@hotmail.com>]

well my idea is so that i can recycle that water to the garden or fruit 
trees, i will also be iusing a composting toilet, so will no be generating 
black water. to me water that goes into a septic tank is lost just as much 
as if it went into the sewerage system. plus with septic there still is the 
possibility of contaminating ground water.

for the most part shower/bath and washing machine water can go direct to the 
garden etc.,. only the kitchen water needs to go through a grease trap 1st, 
that's my understanding of it.

len


> From: Claude  Genest <genest@together.net>
> Reply-To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
> To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
> Subject: Greywater Question
> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 18:29:51 -0400
>
>
> Spoke with our water bureau guy today about putting in a reed bed greywater
> system.
>
> The current policy around here is to put both grey and black water into a
> septic tank and out to a sub-terrenean leech field - standard stuff.
>
> He says that all that extra greywater into a septic helps it along because
> it dilutes the black water.
>
> Given that this works quite well ( according to him) the question he had 
> for
> me was, why bother with the extra expense of a reed bed system ?
>
> I must confess that all I could come up with was a sputtered sort of " 
> well,
> because it's, like, Cool !"
>
> So,  apart from that emminently worthy reason, I was wondering if some of
> you could chime in with other reasons for putting in a reed bed greywater
> system.
>
> .... Like, Please !
>
> Claude
>
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