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What do you use to filter your drain effluent?

Commercial Pump & Filter Unit (like Blackline)
0 (0%)
Roll Media filter unit (like CCI's lower end one)
1 (7.7%)
Various Screen Meshes (comment on how you do it)
2 (15.4%)
Screen Mesh + commercial unit
0 (0%)
Nothin
7 (53.8%)
Other
3 (23.1%)

Total Members Voted: 13

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Offline ZooCity

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Re: What do you use to filter your drain effluent?
« Reply #15 on: December 19, 2011, 01:09:15 PM »
I doubt ours is as cool. We do have a relationship between the city and a compost operation next door involving a poo conveyor from the plant and the use of humanure next door to make really good garden dirt. But I think thats pretty standard these days for most places.


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Re: What do you use to filter your drain effluent?
« Reply #16 on: December 19, 2011, 02:26:20 PM »
In high school we went on a field trip to our local natural sewage treatment facility. All UV, biological digesters, etc.

Apparently tomato seeds survive the human digestive tract. I'll leave it at that.



Roll filter media here as well.

Offline mk162

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Re: What do you use to filter your drain effluent?
« Reply #17 on: December 19, 2011, 02:30:06 PM »
How did you know?  Did they sell bags of "roasted" tomato seeds in the snack bar?

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Re: What do you use to filter your drain effluent?
« Reply #18 on: December 19, 2011, 02:39:07 PM »
How did you know?  Did they sell bags of "roasted" tomato seeds in the snack bar?

Alongside the "corn" chips . . .  :P
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Re: What do you use to filter your drain effluent?
« Reply #19 on: December 19, 2011, 02:43:25 PM »
Largest healthiest most beautiful tomato plants growing out of the solid product field so to speak.


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Re: What do you use to filter your drain effluent?
« Reply #20 on: December 19, 2011, 02:44:57 PM »
Thats interesting. What do they do with the tamaters?

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Re: What do you use to filter your drain effluent?
« Reply #21 on: December 19, 2011, 02:47:01 PM »
fun fact:  did you know there is a man that lives in you appendix and his sole job is to reassemble corn.  Once you have your appendix removed, you will no longer pass whole kernels.

Sounds true to me.

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Re: What do you use to filter your drain effluent?
« Reply #22 on: December 19, 2011, 02:49:41 PM »
fun fact:  did you know there is a man that lives in you appendix and his sole job is to reassemble corn.  Once you have your appendix removed, you will no longer pass whole kernels.

Sounds true to me.
Thats kinda.....corny!  :o

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Re: What do you use to filter your drain effluent?
« Reply #23 on: December 19, 2011, 03:04:14 PM »
Wonder how many people that filter are owners or renters... I think I'd care more about filtering if I owned.

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Re: What do you use to filter your drain effluent?
« Reply #24 on: December 19, 2011, 03:28:48 PM »
Renter, we filter. I'd hate to foot the bill to have the cement slab torn up. We use a pump as well so it's a bit
easier to do in our setup.


Would you eat a tomato grown out of (what used to be) human waste? Treated, composted, %100 safe?

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Re: What do you use to filter your drain effluent?
« Reply #25 on: December 19, 2011, 03:43:00 PM »
Well what kinda crap do they use to grow our vegetables in the fields?

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« Reply #26 on: December 19, 2011, 03:48:38 PM »
Good point. Humans eat some weird stuff though.

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Re: What do you use to filter your drain effluent?
« Reply #27 on: December 19, 2011, 03:51:47 PM »
I would eat it in a heartbeat.  Composted matter is broken down so far from it's original.

The only thing I would worry about is medication still being present.

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Re: What do you use to filter your drain effluent?
« Reply #28 on: December 19, 2011, 04:24:21 PM »
I have heard that medications that have been flushed because they're "old" or "no longer needed" present a REAL problem for groundwater contamination.
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Re: What do you use to filter your drain effluent?
« Reply #29 on: December 19, 2011, 04:27:55 PM »
I've heard the same, which leads me to believe that expiration dates on most of them is hogwash.