Daily Upkeep Of Your Composting Toilet Irrigation Area
Daily Upkeep Of Your Composting Toilet Irrigation Area
I recommend the following procedures to ensure that your wet composting toilet stays in good condition and provides safe treatment for your reywater recycling:
Protect both the composting toilet tank and the dispersal system from vehicle traffic, including livestock. Do not drive over your tank with ride-on mowers.
Avoid digging where your dispersal system and greywater recycling is located. Doing so may damage its pipes.
The dispersal area is not a suitable play area for children and access should be restricted. It should be designed to deter frequent pedestrian traffic.
Deep-rooting trees or shrubs must not be grown in or near your septic tank and dispersal area. Contact your local council for advice on suitable plants.
Where installed, surface water diversion drains and mounds upslope of and around the septic tank and the dispersal system must be kept clean. They protect your system from stormwater runoff and must not be altered or removed.
Landscaping must not result in stormwater pooling on or around the septic tank or the dispersal system.
A thin layer of coarse mulch spread over the tank lid helps your septic tank blend into your landscaping and keeps it cool in hot weather. However, you must not cover the access hatch in the tank lid, and the mulch must not be deeper than 100 mm around the edge of the lid. Also, it must not impair drainage of stormwater runoff away from the tank.
Dispersal areas should be mowed and plants maintained regularly
Landscaping near or around the BioPod must not impair access.