Re: Dirty Water
When we built our house on our Oregon ranch, from where I moved
a year ago, we decided to empty only the three toilets into the septic
tank. All the grey water was emptied into a ditch via a long,
underground, PVC pipe. We kept a large-mesh wire screen over
the outlet for the very purpose you've stated below---to prevent
rodents and snakes from crawling up the pipe.
Barbara Davis now southwest of Fort Worth, Texas
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> At my mother's house in St. Croix, the dish water and the washing
> machine water going straight out of the house in a big PVC pipe to a
> big patch of bannanas, with little ditches to run the water around.
> They don't mind the soap at all, but use bleach very sparingly. (If
> you don't mind the the occasional heap of bubbles on the ground).
>
> This probably would not be feasible in the States, because the cold
> air would flow into the house up thru the pipe. I guess there could be
> some sort of flap. After 15 years of this system, my father's fear
> that a rat would run up the pipe and die has not come to pass!
>
> Laurie
> Medford, MA
> Zone 6
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