DIY & Home Improvement

As a teenager we dug in the dirt to divert a cesspool.

About a decade ago my dad had to buy some special expensive system. There is public water there but not waste.

I've always been pro environment, and my dad big time. For years he sent letters to Boston Globe. His concern was about jet skis and their 2 cycle engines polluting the lake.

When we moved there, there were sailboats and small engine fishing boats. We had a dock and the fish you could see through the clear water and catch...pike, bass.

I moved away, and when I would visit through the years, bigger boats were there, and those damn jet skis buzzing through everything including the reeds of safe havens of breeding grounds for fish.

I moved back for a bit and the lake was nothing like it was when we first moved there. There were no more reeds and no more fish.

I assume the combination of both sewage and motor boats killed the lake. I hope it comes back someday. It is an environmental disaster.

And your thought about cooking and shower wash water, called brown waste, if it goes to the ground or to plants, is fine. Soap can change the pH, but referring back to that book about wastewater I read over a decade ago, it's ecological to use it rather than waste it. Just try to keep veg in it and less animal.