Aquaponics Digest - Tue 08/10/99
Message 1: Re: carnivorous nematodes and mushrooms
from "Dale Robinson"
Message 2: Rain Water SYstem
from "Marcy L. Nameth"
Message 3: Re: Rainwater Harvesting and Purification System
from "Marcy L. Nameth"
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Subject: Re: carnivorous nematodes and mushrooms
From: "Dale Robinson"
I know I'm a little slow at answering this email. Here is a web site =>that
deals with shiitake mushrooms.
http://home.att.net/~shiitakemushroom
Dale Robinson
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Subject: Rain Water SYstem
From: "Marcy L. Nameth"
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 21:31:49 -0600
I deal with water treatment for a living and respectfully
feel it important to mention two possible problems with the
UV sterilizer you have installed.
1. The glass tube is not self cleaning. This is a VERY
important point as thin films of translucent substances can
form and lower the killing effect of the UV to the point
that harmful bacteria will pass through.
2. In the event of a power failure you have no sterilizing
effect for any water that passes through the sterilizer
without an alternate power source.
Very cool system!!!
Marc S. Nameth
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Subject: Re: Rainwater Harvesting and Purification System
From: "Marcy L. Nameth"
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 22:46:35 -0600
Ted:
I deal more often than you want to imagine due to cross
connections and back flow problems. I would estimate around
75% of my customers who get public water to their previously
well fed house want to keep the well cross connected to
their system in case the public supply fails or to augment
their system's irrigation capability.
I am respectfully suggesting that "Orwellian regulations"
are in fact codes brought about by people who have either an
egocentric mind set that ends at their own property line or
a less than comprehensive knowledge of the facts surrounding
public health aspects of their brainstorms.
If I aim my 30-06 Springfield at my property line and fire
it and you are my next door neighbor you will undoubtedly
find that problematic if you are in it's line of fire. That
disloyal bullet did not obey my property line.
Just because an idea is innovative and really neeto keeno
does not give it a magic protection from nature, physics and
other factors of causality. The disloyal idea will follow
the same laws of nature that the public does.
The same holds true for disloyal water lines. Back flow can
and will occur if the property owner has a greater pressure
that the water or power company. A siphon has the same
effect as the active pressure situation. If disloyal
pathogens are present in the water it is a public health
situation it can hurt or kill a lot of people.
See:
http://www.geoflow.com/wastewater/pathogens.htm
http://www.mayohealth.org/mayo/9606/htm/cryptosp.htm
http://www.idahonews.com/080298/DISCOVER/23380.htm
http://www.wqa.org/WQIS/Glossary/Backflow.html
The cross connection and back flow restrictions are a good
thing in my opinion. Please keep in mind I think the US
government currently is power hungry, money hungry,
anti-individualist, constitutional hating and heading for
socialism due to many thinking Orwell's 1984 a good idea. I
am not a collectivist or tree hugger and baby seals are
delicious, they taste like spotted owl etc. No! No! No! I am
not a big government/code lover.
What I am saying is what we privately do CAN cross our
property line and cause public devastation to others and it
happens often enough to warrant a code entry and the
corresponding inspection. (This public code rarely applies
to private water systems not connected to a public system.)
Marc (not Marcy)
S&S Aqua Farm, 8386 County Road 8820, West Plains, MO 65775 417-256-5124
Web page http://www.townsqr.com/snsaqua/
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