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Log Book for April 28, 2003
GreenHab Report
Elia Husiatynski Reporting

After cleaning the 'living machine' of algae on 27/04/03, the system was refilled with water by pumping it from the ground tank into the system until that tank was empty. The toilet-flushing-water-tank was refilled by pumping it from tank 5. No water has been detected on the leach field until now. The system was completely full after pumping the contents of the refilled ground tank into it on 28/04/03.

We are now using the water from the 'living machine' for toilet flushing but considering the smell that the GreenHab is currently spreading I recommend to return to the system of flushing the toilet with the water from the under-the-sink-bucket just a few times a day and letting it drain on the leach field.

The 'living machine' should be emptied because of the smell so what I recommend is to go on flushing the toilet with water from the 'dead machine' but redirecting that water to the leach field until it is emptied to prevent that the liquid in the 'dead machine' gets so concentrated that it cannot be dumped on the leach field anymore without causing severe soil contamination.


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