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Dealing with Christchurch Quake Sewage

Sunday, February 27, 2011
This is a message to all those in Christchurch without adequate sewerage.

I have asked a permaculture teacher if there is a better way to deal with it than by burying in it or digging a long drop or using a chemical toilet.

The answer from Bryan Innes is this, so please pass it on to anyone you know.


"There should be plenty of EM in Ch'ch. Dilute about a capful of EM in a half litre spray bottle. A nappy bucket lined with news paper and with a tight fitting lid with EM sprayed or Bokashi sprinkled on the poos will the trick. Allow 0 .75 litres bucket volume per person per day. Tip into a worm farm, compost heap or bury after two weeks. The result is pickled poos!

Toilet paper and rolls can also be included. Urine in a separate bucket can be diluted and poured on lawns or gardens daily, watch the growth. That is the easiest, fastest solution I know of."

(And you can buy EM in garden stores or organic food stores, whichever is open for business.DK)

Well done Lyttelton for continuing to hold their street party last Saturday. Just show what years of preparation and community building can do. Their timebank has played a big role in this.

Deirdre
 
 

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catjo
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This forum thread has been marked as a question for other Ecobob users to answer. EM 
Posted 2 Mar 11 12:17 PM
EM what does it stand for?
Bokashi where can this be found?
Thanks.
Just do it
69 posts
Re: EM 
Posted 2 Mar 11 1:08 PM
check out www.zingbokashi.co.nz and look in their products, it has a description of what EM is.
nofear
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Re: EM 
Posted 9 Apr 11 2:28 PM
After reading the amazing articles from the Humanure handbook, I have been wondering about the incorporation of EM to this brilliantly simple and inexpensive solution to septic tanks, and town sewerage. best of all no smell and the end product grows the best fruit and veges...just ask the Hunzas who live the longest on this planet.

The big hurdle is the smell and with the 20 litre bucket and sawdust there isnt any. A great read and free to read if you google it up, otherwise go to www.humanure.com and get the ebook for $10. On that site you will read about the author and the concept which he has been using for more than twenty years.

Im not in Chch but I find the argument for adopting this toilet system compelling. I'm so dismayed that almost every NZ town has its "settling ponds at or below sea level and right on the waters edge. All it takes is a high tide or flooding and into the sea it goes. We have to do better than this.

 

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