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Re: Gray water

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I suppose there could be, I've not heard anything that stands out in my
mind.
Tom
Portland OR,  Zone 8
http://www.teleport.com/~scut/garden.htm
-----Original Message-----
From: Mary Thorp <maribou@infocom.com>
Cc: sqft <sqft@listbot.com>
Date: Monday, June 21, 1999 12:02 PM
Subject: Gray water (was Re: Coffee filters in the compost...


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>I thought there were potential health hazards from using grey water on
>vegetable gardens.  Is that outdated now?
>
>Mary Thorp
>Richmond, IN
>Zone 6
>
>Tom Scut wrote:
>
>> Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
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>> I try to rinse the filter into the dirty coffee pot and then dump it all
>> into the compost bucket. A gray water system would be ideal, one of the
>> helathiest, most productive gardens I ever saw grow was irrigated only on
>> well used gray water (during a drought year with a dry well after June).
>> Because I am on a small city lot, it's not really feasible here.
>> Tom
>> Portland OR,  Zone 8
>> http://www.teleport.com/~scut/garden.htm
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Frank Teuton <fteuton@total.net>
>> To: Tom Scut <scut@teleport.com>; sqft <sqft@listbot.com>
>> Date: Monday, June 21, 1999 7:59 AM
>> Subject: Re: Coffee filters in the compost...
>>
>> >I've never been able to quantify the cost of washing the permanent
filter
>> >and the loss of some of the grounds, but I admit to caving in to
>> convenience
>> >by using the paper ones, since it is a quick dump in the compostables
>> >container and away we go...
>> >
>> >Ideally one would rinse the permanent filter into a graywater system for
>> use
>> >in the yard /garden/ compost pile, and I do this with pot likker and
first
>> >rinse of the permanent yogourt container, but, as I said, have caved in
on
>> >the paper filters....
>> >
>> >Frank---doesn't want to get into the whole coffee question, what with
the
>> >price of fairtraded organic coffee, but he does drink it sometimes....
>>
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