10-21-2014, 03:45 AM
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Originally posted by geochem
Having a hard time believing some of the posts on this thread... There are all kinds of nasty biologicals in human waste. When that waste is not processed in an engineered wastewater treatment system or septic system, it ends up in the groundwater - for a looong time. In HPP, testing of low elevation well waters is already showing contamination from mauka cesspools. Same story in lower Puna where Leilani Estates waste water nitrate is showing up in monitoring wells down gradient. And that's only the beginning - do you want to be consuming pharmaceuticals your neighbor flushed down the toilet last week? And yes, graywater too needs to be processed - you dump it into the ground it can be at the water table in 3 to 5 days in Puna - yum, yum...
It's called responsible stewardship.
One of the reasons why we use catchment tanks. Above ground catchment tanks.