Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 3:33 am
Although this sounds clever and workable, an outhouse by any other name is still an outhouse. And the Ky Board of Health says no outhouses. Not sure what the office in Lee County would say, but the Ky Bd. of Health office in Wolfe County essentially told us, "Dig a big poo hole and we'll slap you with a big fine."the lurkist wrote:I read Rick's post about the challenges of pit toilets, but how about a pit toilet on around on the south slope, down the old logging road (logging- get it?) as you go up the hill to the undertow wall. The old road peels off to the right shortly after the trail tops out on the approach to the Undertow. The squatter could be built a bit just down this old two track. A platform would be built over a deep hole (to accomodate quite a bit of poo. ) You poop, drop in a handful of organic matter and let microbes, metabolic heat, and oxygen doo the rest. It would need to be resupplied occ with organic matter to mix. Wood chips, or just leaves (in which case no resupply needed). Yes, it would fill evetually. It would need to be moved at some point. But being built on the south sun exposed slope with good drainage it would basically take care of it self. It would be far enough up hill from any water that all infectious disease risk (Hep A, typhoid, e coli, giardia, etc) would be degraded in the drainage field (the long hillside down to the creek.)...
A pit toilet can be built if you can provide assurance to the B of H, in the form of a contract with a honey dipper, to periodically pump it out and if the pit meets certain standards, such as being an impervious concrete container. Details can be obtained from the Ky Board of Health.
