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Composting toilets Eigenvector 08-24-2007
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Posted by Frank on August 24, 2007, 6:32 pm
Pete C. wrote:
> Eigenvector wrote:
>> Has anyone tried or used a composting toilet?
>>
>> I was reading about it today, enjoying my day off, and after looking at a
>> video clip of the Sun Mar systems it sounds pretty good for a small house
>> with limited waste connections. My house has only 1 bathroom, kitchen sink,
>> and laundry room outlet going to my septic tank. If the toilet could be
>> converted to a composting model, that would mean the septic tank would be
>> for greywater only - dramatically increasing its lifespan and its doubtful
>> I'd ever have to pump the tank again.
>>
>> I've never priced them out, so they could be 20 million dollars for all I
>> know, plus I would expect the county makes it tough if not impossible to
>> install them in a residential area. Heck, simply having a septic tank is
>> almost an impossibility now.
>
> If you look at the recommendations for pumping a septic tank you'll find
> for a single occupancy house with a typical 1,000 gal septic tank and no
> kitchen garbage disposer you pretty much don't have to pump the tank
> since there is virtually no chance of adding to the sludge at a rate
> faster than the bacteria can do their thing.

I try to tell my wife that but she insists in having pumped out every
2-3 years. But even so, with cost of pumping, I think it would be
foolish to put in a composting toilet which probably costs thousands of
dollars. I'm only familiar with one composting toilet. It's in a park
with no water and is solar powered and always stinks.

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Posted by Ann on August 24, 2007, 6:08 pm

>Heck, simply having a septic tank is
>almost an impossibility now.

That entirely depends on where you live. Around here everyone has
one, we have no sewers (nor do I want them, with the associated fees).
--
Ann, gardening in Zone 6a
South of Boston, Massachusetts
e-mail address is not checked
******************************

Posted by Eigenvector on August 24, 2007, 7:19 pm

>
>>Heck, simply having a septic tank is
>>almost an impossibility now.
>
> That entirely depends on where you live. Around here everyone has
> one, we have no sewers (nor do I want them, with the associated fees).
> --
> Ann, gardening in Zone 6a
> South of Boston, Massachusetts
> e-mail address is not checked
> ******************************

It doesn't work that way in our district. Here a septic drain field is
impossibly large by code, much much larger than the one my house was built
on. My presumption is that they are trying to encourage everyone to get
onto sewer. Until my septic fails I won't do that - or at least until they
put a lien on my property.

I was wondering about the composting toilet because it would dramatically
change the lifespan of an older drain field.



Posted by willshak on August 25, 2007, 7:06 am
on 8/24/2007 7:19 PM Eigenvector said the following:
>
>>
>>
>>> Heck, simply having a septic tank is
>>> almost an impossibility now.
>>>
>> That entirely depends on where you live. Around here everyone has
>> one, we have no sewers (nor do I want them, with the associated fees).
>> --
>> Ann, gardening in Zone 6a
>> South of Boston, Massachusetts
>> e-mail address is not checked
>> ******************************
>>
>
> It doesn't work that way in our district. Here a septic drain field is
> impossibly large by code, much much larger than the one my house was built
> on. My presumption is that they are trying to encourage everyone to get
> onto sewer. Until my septic fails I won't do that - or at least until they
> put a lien on my property.
>
> I was wondering about the composting toilet because it would dramatically
> change the lifespan of an older drain field.


Where I lived before, we had a septic system. They put in municipal
sewers and although you didn't have to hook up to the muni system, they
charged you as if you were connected.

--

Bill
In Hamptonburgh, NY
To email, remove the double zeroes after @

Posted by Eigenvector on August 25, 2007, 11:52 am

> on 8/24/2007 7:19 PM Eigenvector said the following:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Heck, simply having a septic tank is
>>>> almost an impossibility now.
>>>>
>>> That entirely depends on where you live. Around here everyone has
>>> one, we have no sewers (nor do I want them, with the associated fees).
>>> --
>>> Ann, gardening in Zone 6a
>>> South of Boston, Massachusetts
>>> e-mail address is not checked
>>> ******************************
>>>
>>
>> It doesn't work that way in our district. Here a septic drain field is
>> impossibly large by code, much much larger than the one my house was
>> built on. My presumption is that they are trying to encourage everyone
>> to get onto sewer. Until my septic fails I won't do that - or at least
>> until they put a lien on my property.
>>
>> I was wondering about the composting toilet because it would dramatically
>> change the lifespan of an older drain field.
>
>
> Where I lived before, we had a septic system. They put in municipal sewers
> and although you didn't have to hook up to the muni system, they charged
> you as if you were connected.
>
> --
>
> Bill

That would piss me off - getting charged for something you don't need or
use.



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