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View Poll Results: Where do you use your waste water?
Washing Machine 3 9.68%
pump to Houseplants/lawn 5 16.13%
Floor Drain/bathtub 19 61.29%
Other 4 12.90%
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Old 04-23-2008, 01:58 AM
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Down the drain.

And aren't I helping the City Sewers, dilution/solution/pollution?
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Old 04-23-2008, 03:05 AM
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Down the drain.
Me too, I like to think that it's keeping my basement floor drain from plugging up and over flowing. The drain backed up and overflowed nasty grossness all over the basement floor when we first moved in, and I would prefer not to go through that again!
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Down the drain here too, but then, I have a septic so nothign to worry about, its back into the ground where it came from.
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Down the drain in the winter, and to a 45 gallon Rubbermaid container for watering plants in the summer.
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I am ashamed to say mine has been going down the drain

Looks like I'll be picking up some new rain barrels for the excess. With that and rainwater I should be set to water the grass and plants all summer.
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Old 04-23-2008, 07:11 PM
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Getting off course here a bit. Next poll might be what happens do you do with water change water? I thought I would posison some weeds in our gravel driveway but so far they seem to enjoy the water, but I have only done 2 water changes and maybe a few more would bring the salt content to a level that is effective.
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Getting off course here a bit. Next poll might be what happens do you do with water change water? I thought I would posison some weeds in our gravel driveway but so far they seem to enjoy the water, but I have only done 2 water changes and maybe a few more would bring the salt content to a level that is effective.
I tried that with the same results. The weeds loved the extra water Now it just goes down the toilet.
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Old 04-23-2008, 07:14 PM
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Using it to water plants is not a good idea as the amount of salts left in the ground will make that soil unusable for regular plants
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