Hot tub waste water - where can it go?

[Nickfromwales]

I'll watch that later if I can't get to sleep

 

[Teglborg]

Hi

We are planning to install a hot tub (Canadian spa Toronto with an ozone generator which is presented as a way to reduce chemicals) in a holiday cottage in Wales in which there are no sewers so the used water has to go into a field rat her than the septic tank

After having read about hot tubs,  we have started being  concerned about the waste water.

It seems that chlorine evaporates after 3 days days. We found that in remote places in Canada, people have to install a  tank in which the wastewater from the hot tub goes when emptied and stays for three days before being released through a soakaway into the wild.

Do you think that that would be suitable?

The other potential (and may be additional) solution to "clean" the waste water would be to add in the second tank some  Sodium Thiosulphate to neutralise the Chlorine. Would that be a solution?

The last potential solution we have identified is to filter the water through activated carbon.

 

Discussing with various people, we have found out that there is a growing number of hot tubs in cottages in Wales where there are no sewers. 

We have not identified any commercial solution tackling this problem.  Has anybody got any ideas, thoughts or solutions to "clean" the water before releasing it into Nature?

[SteamyTea]

I would worry more about Folliculitis more than the waste water.  It is very often caused by spa baths.

 

Worse job I ever had was cleaning the DE filter at the Sheffield YMCA.  I have no idea what those young men got up to.