This article will cover using greywater systems to limit water going into your cesspool. Having a business or a home of your own can be a very exhausting endeavor especially if you always end up with a cesspool problem. The problem lies within the cesspool. It was designed and made to cater to your household or business establishment. Maintaining it in optimal condition requires you to observe proper waste disposal and regard for the surrounding environment. Part of this regard is to limit the water that enters the cesspool system. This means that you should be mindful of how you use your water inside the home or business. If you only have your cesspool to catch all the wastewater and grey water, then you should anticipate inevitable system failure. You should discuss using grey water systems to limit water going into your cesspools with your septic expert. Only then would you achieve peace of mind that your cesspool will not fail.
What is grey water? This is the waste liquid that comes from houses or buildings excluding the waste from toilets. It is water from the bathtub, shower, sink, or laundry area. Backwater is the waste liquid that includes waste from the toilets. If your home or building has a mixed liquid waste from showers, tubs, sinks, and toilets, these become blackwater. If you want to lessen the water load that enters your cesspool, you need to have a grey water system installed. A grey water system is a wastewater system that decreases the amount of effluent that enters a cesspool system by collecting the grey water and separating it from the blackwater. If you know that your cesspool is built with a limited capacity, you should talk to your septic expert about constructing a drywell or a grey water system in your premises.
Grey water systems are also utilized for recycling and conserving water especially in areas where there is a minimal supply of water. There are grey water systems that include the roof runoff or rainwater. In general the grey water system does not include human waste. This means that the grey water does not need to be treated like blackwater when it is disposed of within the premises. The soil bio-mat and the soil filtration processes within the property are enough to make the water clean enough to release into the surrounding environment. With this, building code requirements for disposing of grey water is less strict than those for disposing blackwater. However, other areas still require the treatment process involved in a drywell to allow property owners to dispose of grey water on the surface of the ground.
Your cesspool needs a grey water system if it has a limited water load capacity. You should prevent the water load from filling up your cesspool because it is going to stir up the solid waste materials. This delays the degradation process done by the anaerobic bacteria. When this happens, the solid waste flow through the perforations of your cesspool and block the surrounding absorption area. When the absorption area becomes filled with untreated wastewater, the aerobic bacteria die off, allowing the bio-mat to proliferate. The bio-mat clog the soil absorption area. Eventually, the cesspool fails. That is why you need to consider using an efficient grey water system for your cesspool. Doing so will enable you to save money on huge cesspool repairs and a great deal of heartbreak.
Installing a grey water system for your home or business will let you recycle or conserve water especially if you are in an area where there is a shortage of clean water. These places have certain limitations in supplying water, so it is necessary to treat and filter grey water so that it could be used for flushing toilets and watering crops and lawns. Generally, a grey water system can save about 50 gallons to 100 gallons of water in one day or perhaps even more than that. It depends on the manner and level of water usage in your home or business. Even if your home or business has access to a municipal water supply, you can still benefit from a grey water system. You could effectively recycle water in your own home or building and this could definitely help you save on your water bills.
Talk to your septic expert about the grey water system so that you could gain the benefits of having recycled grey water within your premises.