[at-l] Grey water

[jbullar1 at twcny.rr.com (Jim Bullard)]

At 11:17 PM 2/10/2004 -0500, Rogene Beers wrote:
>The recent water issues brings up a point of seperating your sewer from grey
>water.
>That pretty easy to do if you build your house with seperate pipes just
>route the grey water to a easily made cese(SP?) pool.  You take a shovel and
>some bricks dig a hole aobur six feet down or a bit less depending on the
>water table etc then line the side with discarded brick and put a lid on it.
>Wala
>grey water drainge homemade.
>No need for a second septic system of course if you have 15 peoole in your
>house it does need to be bigger.
>Rogene
>Cespool diger in Fla you do have to pay attentinon to the soil types too but
>it does work.

If you are building a new house this is fairly easy to do but it can be a 
major project in an existing house especially in a Northern climate. You 
need to install a separate drain line through the cellar wall below the 
frost level for your area. If you have a cellar like mine with 30" thick 
mortared stone (make that boulder) walls it is not an easy do-it-yourself 
project. Even an 8" poured foundation would present a major obstacle to the 
average do-it-yourselfer. Once outside the wall a leach field will suffice 
if it extensive enough for the amount of grey water and you have loose, 
well drained soil.