[bennelson]

Hey everyone.

At my house, we have a well for source water, and a "holding-tank" for waste water.

That means that rather than having either sewer or a septic tank and field, waste water literally just accumulates in an underground tank behind my house.

I live right down the street from a lake, in an area not serviced by municipal sewer - a holding tank is a cheap way to set up a waste-water system.

However, it is NOT cheap to maintain. You have to pay a guy in a pumper truck to come out whenever it's full. At about $90 per service call!

How often does it fill up? Well, that's the point I am coming to. When we moved in to our house a couple years ago, it came to about every 5 weeks.

That comes to about 28 gallons of water per person (my wife and I) per day. Remember, thats showers, dish washing, clothes washing, toilet, every bit of water that runs down the drain.

At the end of summer, I bought a used front-loading washing machine. It uses HALF as much water as the old one did.

This last emptying of the holding tank was 8 WEEKS since last time.

Thats less than 18 gallons of water per person per day!

And not a bad savings on that terrible waste-water bill!