reed bed waste system

[old tree man]

Staying with my sister in cumbria and she is very interested in setting up her own reed bed system for toilet waste, has anyone had any experience in this field or knows of any help that she can get advice from
-how to build one.
thanks
Russ

[kimmie]

sorry no but matt and i would be intrested to hear the replies to this too!

[Smooth Hound]

I DONT KNOW, BUT I WOULD IMAGINE THAT THE ALTERNATIVE TECHNOLOGY CENTRE IN MACYNLLETH WOULD HAVE INFORMATION ON THIS SUBJECT sorry about the capitals

[Ellendra]

There's a book called Solviva that describes a very easy-to-set-up system for toilet waste and greywater. I'll see if I can find my copy and give you more details.

[Pilsbury]

sorry to plug another Forum but Rosewood farm has just set up a reedbed system for his animal waste i think, this is a link to the topic post over on Downsizer and he has done loads of work on this if i recall,
http://forum.downsizer.net/viewtopic.ph ... ht=reedbed

hope its ok to put the link in.
just looked back through the thread a bit and there is not much info but if you Email Rob he might be able to tell you more

[old tree man]

thanks to all the replys
the rosewood farm project dosen't actually show you how to set up but thanks for the link
still looking into the solviva book
thanks again, all the best
Russ