Remote site toilets. Having problems with saltwater toilets: the toilet wateris turning black after 3 years of clear water operation. Have flushed the systems added a nitate injection system to deal with the rotten egg smell from storing the water in standard bladder pressure tanks. We have solar power on a limited bases with generator back-up, freashwater is not an option . I guess it could be a breakdown of the standard bladder storage tanks internally, the supply lines are Pex so no rot there and have flushed the toilet bowl tanks regularly. The intake line is not picking up silt. We’ve got some gross toilets and need help!
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That is a very, very specialized need.
I don't know if you will get many people here familar with such systems.
You might want to do a google on -off grid homes- and -sustainable homes-
thanks for the response. your the only one so far!
Forest Service uses them here in a freshwater model...
there's a place to search...
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Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
This might be of some help.
http://www.boatus.com/boattech/casey/04.htm
In any system designed for salt water, there are usually sacrificial zinc ingots or rods. If these are corroded away (three years of good operation then sudden blackwater problems makes it sound likely), they need to be replaced.
Dinosaur
How now, Mighty Sauron, that thou art not brought
low by this? For thine evil pales before that which
foolish men call Justice....
doggone you cover a lot of ground ;-)
I spent 7 years on tugboats working my way up from Ordinary Seaman to Captain; I had to learn somethin' from the Chief Engineer while I was off watch and not sleepin'....Dinosaur
How now, Mighty Sauron, that thou art not broughtlow by this? For thine evil pales before that whichfoolish men call Justice....
Cool...guess I'll have to call you Capn now.....I spent a few years as a deckhand on a big old twin 12 Detroit Diesel tour boat in DC....learned a few thing there, myself...
I started on an 1885 iron hull schooner which belonged to South Street Seaport Museum in NYC; went from there to tourist boats (including a replica sidewheeler with actual functioning paddlewheels), then finally to 'real' boats in the towing biz. Got my fill one night when sailing as chief mate to a (known) psychotic captain who went nuts (not for the first time) while we were hanging off an anchor buoy in LI Sound waiting on the tide. I don't take kindly to people who threaten to kill me and actually mean it, so I locked myself in the wheelhouse, called the company dispatcher on a channel I knew the Coasties were monitoring, and told 'em Joe had gone crazy again and was threatening to kill people and I wanted off the boat NOW.
I was ashore an hour later, 3:30am, standing with my seabag on a very dark street in the South Bronx wondering if I'd get a taxi before someone got me.
Never went back....Dinosaur
How now, Mighty Sauron, that thou art not broughtlow by this? For thine evil pales before that whichfoolish men call Justice....
Wild story-at least you were in the US...I was always on the Potomac, running down to Mt. Vernon in the summers. The owner was a whiz with OPM (other peoples money)
The final scheme, before I got fired, was a big loan from the Society for Historic Preservation...they had run out of buildings to save, and moved into boats. He bought the Williamsburg (http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/w9/williamsburg.htm) off a gambling syndicate in Philly that had gone bust....he had a "plan" to use it, but it was all smoke & mirrors, the main idea was to get the $$ for other uses....Boss used to send us out on one engine with a full load of passengers..I should have called the CG on him...
Haven't been keeping up with your Tavern thread......hope things are going well....
SOS since December 22. Still looking for a miracle....Dinosaur
How now, Mighty Sauron, that thou art not broughtlow by this? For thine evil pales before that whichfoolish men call Justice....
Sorry to hear that......we're rooting for you....
the Williamsburg
I have a memory of seeing a sad picture of a hull sunk between pilings that hope was not AGC-369--this would be from the Museum Reports section of Naval History many many many issues ago, and they had taken up the topic of Presidential vessels.
Occupational hazard of my occupation not being around (sorry Bubba)
Probably was....I'll tell you the whole, sorry story after the kids are squared away....
It does sound a bit like rubber breakdown.