Does anyone have suggestions for the best permaculturey ways to manage an already existing septic system?
My fiancee and I just bought a home on 1.5 acres in Oly, WA. It's a "traditional" home that already has plumbing and a septic system. We have found many of the general septic best practices, and we plan to
compost all organic matter and not use the food "disposal" in our sink. We won't be flushing much of anything besides toilet paper, and we want to re-plumb much of our house into a greywater system. Meaning, we probably won't be putting much into our septic tank other than toilet flushes.
I'd like to bypass the septic altogether by doing
humanure, but I don't know if we can get away with it where we live. In the even that we can't, does anyone have suggestions on how best to manage our septic system in a
permaculture fashion? My goals are:
1) Toxin
free septic management
2) Minimize how frequently we need to
pump the septic system
3) Utilize the septic system as little as possible, with the exception of
poop since we might not be able to get away with switching to
compost toilets.
Any and all
permaculture best practices for utilizing a septic system that's already in place would be awesome and helpful. Thanks!
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