Flutterby™! : 200 gallon follow up 2014-09-13 00:19:27.809765+00

200 gallon follow up

2014-09-13 00:19:27.809765+00 by meuon 0 comments

Follow up to: this post about evaporating a lot of water at Burning Man. While not artistic, I spent $25 on a 12 volt bilge pump and $7.99 each on some kiddie pools, and 4 boards.... and it worked very very well. The bilge pump had it's own float switch so it only ran when it needed to, which was in short bursts. It evaporated much more than 200 gallons, including some water from neighboring camps. 12 volt power came from my camp power supply, 100 watt solar + battery + inverter.. Most of the water pumped up recycled back into the pool, with just a little spraying into the two levels of overflow area.

This is the "leftovers" being pumped into our sludge tank, which included some kitchen waste and some other misc.. Using the bilge pump worked well for this also. Credit needs to be given to our 18+ campmates, who were very good about using the system, kitchen practices, running water through the filter buckets.. and being careful with their water usage.