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- From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
- Newsgroups: misc.rural
- Subject: Re: concerns with well water and a septic tank
- Message-ID: <4086@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 03:48:18 GMT
- References: <1992Dec27.212129.27007@siemens.com> <1992Dec29.155822.17569@trentu.ca> <1992Dec29.185522.17568@siemens.com>
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- In article <1992Dec29.185522.17568@siemens.com> aad@siemens.com (Anthony Datri) writes:
- >No, I'm worried about polluting the environment. I don't know enough about
- >septic tanks to worry about it specifically.
-
- Minimize bleach usage, no harsh household cleansers like draino. No solvents
- or paints. Minimal grease. Low or zero phosphate detergents. Just like
- you should already be doing with a municipal system if you're concerned about
- the environment.
-
- >> If there was anything you could do
- >>that would wreck it, the landlord would have told you not to do it.
-
- >Well, the landlord let me believe that the gas stove was reasonable, but I
- >see now that it has a pair of pilots burning. I don't truse landlords.
-
- Gas stoves are far more environmentally friendly than almost anything else.
- Even with pilot lights, they're burning far fewer fossil fuels than an electric
- stove does in the power plant that's supplying it. Unless the power plant is
- nuclear.
-
- >>I just live my life as always. Some people have wells that can't support
- >>heavy watering or five loads of laundry in a row, but you'll find
- >>that out lickety-split when you run out of water :-).
-
- >I find it out when the pump drops the voltage throughout the electrical web.
-
- Probably not. The pump will either just shut itself off, or make a smelly,
- hot and loud sound as it leaves this earth.
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