Repairs

At last the drain field for the gray water system is being repaired. The field is ten years old - I put it in myself when I first came here. I bought this old derelict house which had been built to "gray-stage" but never finished. Squatters had moved in and I had to pay them to go away. There was water and power (wires strung through roof rafters) but little else. The drain to the septic tank was exposed and broken and had to be replaced. The most unfriendly thing to a septic tank is gray water. So I undertook to separate gray water and built the grease trap and leach field. It has served well over the years but has taken to more frequent clogging in recent times.

As I write this, my employee is digging up the old drain and gravel bed and will replace it with two larger diameter tubes laid on top of coarser rock to allow freer drainage. It will be wonderful not to have the gray water backing up into the shower every time you do one too many loads of laundry.

Life is good in the rainforest.