dumping gray water in forest
Was just reading about a guy looking for ideas how to link both his grey tanks together and one guy wrote he never dumps galley grey water on the forest floor but shower grey is another story. Well, I...
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JJBIRISH wrote:Francesca Knowles wrote:
I'll be darned- you don't mean to say that folks are coming around to the benefits of using greywater for plants etc., just like we tent-and-boonie-campers have been doing for years?
Wonders will never cease! :)
Not at all… they are coming around to establishing rules for treatment of gray water so it can be reused…
Of course maybe you would like to conform and carry a tub of sand or some other media to filter your gray water through before distributing it on the plants or ground…
Then of course you have to contend with the carrying and disposal of the contaminated sand instead…
My greywater goes into a hole dug in the firepit when I'm primitive, "dry", or tent camping in the boonies- never on the surface of the ground.
There is no better filtration media than ashes, and the high Ph provides the added enhancement of neutralization of odors and even the beginnings of rudimentary "treatment". Any bits/pieces of food/grease readily mix with the ashes-one would never know they're there. There are NO bugs/vermin attracted by this method.
And let us not forget the sanitizing effect of the fire ultimately built in the pit. What could be more sanitary/environmentally responsible than this arrangement?
