Vermifiltration - Sewage Treatment By Worms

[readiescards]

I'm still considering this:

http://www.ebuild.co.uk/topic/17564-vermifiltration-sewage-treatment-by-worms-does-it-work/

 

mainly as I can't find anything better.  Where better means:

* non electric

* no noisy wind fans on soil stack vents

* minimal maintenance

 

I don't suppose since I did that post Nov 2015 anyone else has been brave (stupid?) enough to give vermifiltration ago?

 

 

[PeterW]

Can't see either BC or EA going for that - no standards and no real data to back it up...

 

makes you wonder if they ever got past the R&D stage ..?

[Onoff]

With this you'd be opening a whole can of wo...

 

I'll get me coat! 

[dogman]

Interesting.

 

Our property has a fully operating septic tank built over 200 years ago. It has three brick bell chambers and a drainage field that has been replaced recently.

 

The first chamber is full of thousands of small red worms that eat what we deposit 

We don't use anything that will kill the worms and in 14 years only had to empty it twice and both times they always leave a foot or so in the bottom so they breed again.

 

No smell or issues 

 

 

[readiescards]

1 hour ago, dogman said:

Our property has a fully operating septic tank built over 200 years ago. It has three brick bell chambers and a drainage field that has been replaced recently.

 

Er, do you know the supplier/designer?!

 

Who empties/maintains it?

[readiescards]

Disappointingly I've not been able to make contact with the Waste Water Wizard company and so have given up, looks like an energy sapping air pump sewage treatment plant is what I'll have to have :-(