Hi Megan, By my ...
Published by Sarah den Haring, Founder/Director at GreenWater Environmental Water & Sanitation Solutions
Hi Megan,
By my calculations using Kenyan prices this comes out at about 1,600usd for materials only. This has no labour or transport cost, nor any pipework or chamber cost before or after the HF bed. Do contact me if you need anything further.
If you are able to add a stage to aerate the effluent before the HF bed this would be beneficial.
Best regards, Sarah
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Dear Megan,
Kindly take straight advantages of FRESH (O2 rich) grey water, therefore take out of your system the septic tank. Have an easy exchangeable rough coarse filter for hairs and other objects in greywater. Use vertical flow CW not HF as HF have a stagnant water and becomes anaerobic system and later clogging by anaerobic biofilm. Use gravity flow to CW for equal distribution to bed. Under tropical condition 1-2 m2 per p.e. should be enough. The founder of CW is not Prof. Kikut, it is late MS Dr. Käthe SEIDEL, see her now open patent in German language at my web page: http://www.aqua-verde.de/Orts-PKA/patente-von-dr-kaethe-seidel/
and
Beautiful Bulrushes, Remarkable Reeds:
The Water Reclamation Miracles of Kaethe Seidel
1990 by
Elisabet Sahtouris, PhD
evolution biologist and futurist
Gaia’s Dance (Kindle) www.sahtouris.com
Good luck
Detlef
Published by AquaVerde SCHWAGER, CEO at AquaVerde
Hi Sarah, thanks very much for your help and advice! I plan on doing a small pilot study and will definately contact you. Your company looks very interesting! Best regards Megan
Published by Megan Galloway, Water consultant at Royal HaskoningDHV