I let mine go out on my driveway and roll to the stone part I dont want things growing anyhow. I used to dump my 30gal right out the door but it rolled in the garden and killed my plants after a few times so I stopped that. I have dumped a ton into the lawn to and the crab grass keeps growing lol.
Saltwater down the drain?
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The average family certainly produces more salt in their urine than you are dumping from your tank. I wouldn't worry about it.
I also have dumped saltwater on the lawn without it hurting the grass, but that might be different in places that receive less rain and the salt sits on the grass for longer.
I also have dumped saltwater on the lawn without it hurting the grass, but that might be different in places that receive less rain and the salt sits on the grass for longer.
I don't buy the PVC and fire issue. So maybe we should insist on using bare wirings to make it less harmful during a fire due to the plastic in the wiring insulator?
Anyway, down the drain if you have muni septic. Check your septic if you have a sept tank, but unless your fish tank is almost as big as your septic tank, there should be no concern... I don't know septic, so you may want someone with a certification there. As for the lawn, it is a bad idea, particularly if your grass got 99.5% of the water from sprinkler and you only turn it on once a week, like around here. If you are putting salt on your driveway to melt the ice on winter, then pour it on it will certainly save you a few dollar in rock salt.
For me, I use it for cooking. Never buy any soy sauce since 1996 when I started the hobby.... :wink:
Anyway, down the drain if you have muni septic. Check your septic if you have a sept tank, but unless your fish tank is almost as big as your septic tank, there should be no concern... I don't know septic, so you may want someone with a certification there. As for the lawn, it is a bad idea, particularly if your grass got 99.5% of the water from sprinkler and you only turn it on once a week, like around here. If you are putting salt on your driveway to melt the ice on winter, then pour it on it will certainly save you a few dollar in rock salt.
For me, I use it for cooking. Never buy any soy sauce since 1996 when I started the hobby.... :wink:
My new system WC water will be going into the swimming pool- its salt clorinated anyway.
The system is too big to pump into the sewer system (Its illegal here anyhow, and also, I dont know how much is pumped out at sea untreated.) I cant dump it in the stormwater system because of the risk of alien introduction (the stormwater travels a whole 500 feet and then straight into the ocean here) I cant pump that quantity of salt onto my lawn either- its sure to contaminate the soil and kill the grass.
The system is too big to pump into the sewer system (Its illegal here anyhow, and also, I dont know how much is pumped out at sea untreated.) I cant dump it in the stormwater system because of the risk of alien introduction (the stormwater travels a whole 500 feet and then straight into the ocean here) I cant pump that quantity of salt onto my lawn either- its sure to contaminate the soil and kill the grass.
sfsuphysics":m55v1hlf said:
You would be amazed about how many places simply pump raw, untreated sewage out to sea. It was a while ago, but the list of 1st world cities doing it in the 80's was used to justify proposals here to copy them, sadly those proposals were successful. I dont know what proportion of the daily harvest is treated in this manner, but I would guess a lot. 8O :?
Well I know in SF the water leaving the sewage treatment plant claims to be cleaner than water in nature (or something to that effect)... however when it rains really hard the place does overflow, over the great highway, down ocean beach, and right into the Pacific. I've known more than one person who's gotten sick just by going in the water shortly after a rain storm to surf... they learn a bit after that first experience (and they realize what happened)
You are fortunate. Ours is pumped untreated 15kms out to sea. I havent heard of anyone having negative effects yet, but then a bigger problem is the run-off from our rural/informal populations when it rains, there are invariably no sanitation facilities in that environment. (Sorry, this is getting off-topic....)
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