Since the aerobic treatment system (ATS) dumps the water out into a 1 cubic meter cistern below the ground, and the slow sand filter we want to use to filter this is above ground about 5 meters away, we are using a large aquarium pump to pump the effluent in the cistern to the slow…
Hooking the air pump up to the aerobic treatment system
We went with an aerobic treatment system (ATS) rather than a septic tank for our sewage system because it is supposed to result in cleaner effluent and we wanted to use the treated (and post sand filtered) effluent on the land for watering (non-edible) plants, etc. (You can see all of the posts about the…
Sewage tank prefilter
This was an idea Praew and I came up with. We will be experimenting with slow sand filters to treat the grey water sewage before using it for watering plants and realized we should filter for any loose hair or whatever that gets down the drain so it doesn’t clog the pump. Therefore, before the…
Some more progress on the sewage
The aerobic treatment system and the effluent cistern have been installed and hooked up. Here is a picture from today: You can see what is underneath in this post from a few days ago. Now we just need to build a cover for the cistern and a pump to pump the effluent to a secondary…
Sewage system mostly completed
Sewage is rarely people’s favorite topic, but in a home, it is a very important one. Nothing exemplifies this more than working on the electrical wiring around the new house and realizing you really need to use the restroom. And then you remember that you can’t because the sewage system hasn’t finished installation. Well, the…
Sewage treatment
It might not be the most glamorous part of building a house, but sewage treatment is a pretty important one. The first house is mostly done and we’ve had a big hole in the ground for the sewage treatment system for a while and now it is time to start installing. Unfortunately for us, there…
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