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Arsenic Lupin
Apr 12, 2012

This particularly rapid💨 unintelligible 😖patter💁 isn't generally heard🧏‍♂️, and if it is🤔, it doesn't matter💁.


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Spikes32
Jul 25, 2013

Happy trees
How do you live on such a small lot but not have town sewers to connect to?

Arsenic Lupin
Apr 12, 2012

This particularly rapid💨 unintelligible 😖patter💁 isn't generally heard🧏‍♂️, and if it is🤔, it doesn't matter💁.


Spikes32 posted:

How do you live on such a small lot but not have town sewers to connect to?

It's a small rural lot. It was originally carved out of the surrounding farmland to be a general store.

trevorreznik
Apr 22, 2023

Arsenic Lupin posted:

The problem is that we need somewhere for the greywater to go, and we also don't have enough space for a legal greywater system.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding but I thought the grey water went straight down from the mound. If experts are telling you about your problems they're obviously the ones who know what they're doing.

Arsenic Lupin
Apr 12, 2012

This particularly rapid💨 unintelligible 😖patter💁 isn't generally heard🧏‍♂️, and if it is🤔, it doesn't matter💁.


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Arsenic Lupin
Apr 12, 2012

This particularly rapid💨 unintelligible 😖patter💁 isn't generally heard🧏‍♂️, and if it is🤔, it doesn't matter💁.


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QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

At some point an engineer is going to tell you to eat poo poo

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





Just hook up to city sewer bing bong so simple

IOwnCalculus
Apr 2, 2003





Park an empty cement truck on your property and use it as a septic system poo tank until the town offers to buy you out for 10x what you paid.

Then, take the offer instead of going all :killdozer:

Arsenic Lupin
Apr 12, 2012

This particularly rapid💨 unintelligible 😖patter💁 isn't generally heard🧏‍♂️, and if it is🤔, it doesn't matter💁.


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Hadlock
Nov 9, 2004

Crazy idea, You might try making friends with someone high up at the state park and try asking for a variance allowing a 99 year lease from the state park to install a new leech pit or whatever on the other side of the property line. A 500 sq ft lease for a dollar or whatever. I doubt whatever is a stones throw away from your house (and a public road) is of extreme ecological importance

CarForumPoster
Jun 26, 2013

⚡POWER⚡

Hadlock posted:

Crazy idea, You might try making friends with someone high up at the state park and try asking for a variance allowing a 99 year lease from the state park to install a new leech pit or whatever on the other side of the property line. A 500 sq ft lease for a dollar or whatever. I doubt whatever is a stones throw away from your house (and a public road) is of extreme ecological importance

I agree, OP and one or more other people should agree to intentionally do a probably illegal thing then draft a contract in furtherance of the scheme totally fine plan to harm the state's interest in having unbeshitted state parks or whatever

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

Hadlock posted:

Crazy idea, You might try making friends with someone high up at the state park and try asking for a variance allowing a 99 year lease from the state park to install a new leech pit or whatever on the other side of the property line. A 500 sq ft lease for a dollar or whatever. I doubt whatever is a stones throw away from your house (and a public road) is of extreme ecological importance

What a stupid bullshit idea, christ

OP should make friends with the governor

Catatron Prime
Aug 23, 2010

IT ME



Toilet Rascal
Possible stopgap solution if the shitter is full up:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009Z7EKIC

Only half joking, considering the kafkaesque nightmare otherwise

Arsenic Lupin
Apr 12, 2012

This particularly rapid💨 unintelligible 😖patter💁 isn't generally heard🧏‍♂️, and if it is🤔, it doesn't matter💁.


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Arsenic Lupin fucked around with this message at 22:55 on May 20, 2024

Catatron Prime
Aug 23, 2010

IT ME



Toilet Rascal

Arsenic Lupin posted:

Still wouldn't help with the rest of the house's water! The septic system only has the urine and poop and such.

At least greywater is much easier to deal with. Switching to the right biodegradable soaps and whatnot, you could divert it straight into suitable landscaping.

Probably not a solution for you since you've already engaged professionals to fix the issue, but more to highlight that viable alternatives do exist, though they may require some level of changes in behavior.

Arsenic Lupin
Apr 12, 2012

This particularly rapid💨 unintelligible 😖patter💁 isn't generally heard🧏‍♂️, and if it is🤔, it doesn't matter💁.


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TheBacon
Feb 8, 2012

#essereFerrari

I realize it would be a hard sell at this point with these things you’d need to disclose, but uh have you seriously considered moving? Like .09 acre and all that sounds like this is a far from ideal place to live. Was this disclosed when you bought? It seems like the illegal septic/greywater is something you could take up with the PO if it hasn’t been too long?

Arsenic Lupin
Apr 12, 2012

This particularly rapid💨 unintelligible 😖patter💁 isn't generally heard🧏‍♂️, and if it is🤔, it doesn't matter💁.


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TheBacon
Feb 8, 2012

#essereFerrari

That’s rough, good luck on a solution

BigHead
Jul 25, 2003
Huh?


Nap Ghost
I have no real solution to offer other than to encourage you to list it and see what offers roll in. You might get someone to offer cash as-is. Just a few years ago (in a very different market) people were throwing around those offers all the time. You might not get one but then you're just where you are now so it's not like it can harm you.

MarcusSA
Sep 23, 2007

I’m telling you outhouses are making a comeback in 2024. Just wait it out and you are golden.

Arsenic Lupin
Apr 12, 2012

This particularly rapid💨 unintelligible 😖patter💁 isn't generally heard🧏‍♂️, and if it is🤔, it doesn't matter💁.


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Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

I’ve been following the video account of a lady digging out a mine from beneath the basement of her suburban home. Just something to think about.

https://www.housebeautiful.com/lifestyle/entertainment/a45531598/tiktok-woman-building-tunnel-system-under-home/

trevorreznik
Apr 22, 2023
Short of researching tax issues for involuntary condemnation, what about paying to tie into your neighbor's sewer/septic setup? That might be more feasible than buying land.

I just don't know what else you can do on that size lot for the grey water from laundry and dishes.

It also seems like there should be some sort of absolutely comical 30 foot tall septic mound option that would be extremely cost prohibitive.

trevorreznik fucked around with this message at 17:39 on Dec 15, 2023

Arsenic Lupin
Apr 12, 2012

This particularly rapid💨 unintelligible 😖patter💁 isn't generally heard🧏‍♂️, and if it is🤔, it doesn't matter💁.


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MarcusSA
Sep 23, 2007

Two other solutions.

Just rent your neighbors toilet.

This is a bit more expensive but I watched The Martian the other day and NASA has these toilets where when you poo poo it seals them into little bags. The bags get dumped in to a bin that you can just dispose of on trash day.

Sundae
Dec 1, 2005
Have you considered very large litter boxes? Cats will train you for free during the sales presentation.

Sundae
Dec 1, 2005
Build a second floor above the first floor. Make the first floor an above-ground septic tank. Build higher each time a lower floor fills up.

MarcusSA
Sep 23, 2007

Ok you said it’s by the ocean right? Well fish poo poo in the ocean all the time so why can’t you?

It’s literally right there.

Enos Cabell
Nov 3, 2004


The mind is a powerful tool, simply will yourself to stop pooping.

Benagain
Oct 10, 2007

Can you see that I am serious?
Fun Shoe
My parents and I have always enjoyed telling each other about the books we're reading or have read since I was a child. I've got fond memories of hearing about Dune in a restaurant when I was 8 and attempting to walk without rhythm through the parking lot. But for some reason, I kept remembering my mom telling me about this story where a woman could just think about pooping and bam! the poop would magically drop into the toilet from wherever she happened to be, no muss no fuss. When I was in college I remembered it again and realized how stupid I'd been. My mom must have read some magazine article about healthy pooping habits or what have you and told me about it and my child brain had conflated that with the sci fi stories she also told me about. I brought this up next holiday as an example of weird childhood memories.

Only it turns out that no, my mom had read some weird-rear end 70s sci fi story about people developing psychic powers and one woman used her teleportation powers to just never visit the bathroom again.

In conclusion, I own a home.

Guy Axlerod
Dec 29, 2008
Can you park an RV on site? Or one of those luxury port a potty trailers with a shower? I wonder if that's cheaper than continuing to flush into a non functional septic system.

Arsenic Lupin
Apr 12, 2012

This particularly rapid💨 unintelligible 😖patter💁 isn't generally heard🧏‍♂️, and if it is🤔, it doesn't matter💁.


Sundae posted:

Build a second floor above the first floor. Make the first floor an above-ground septic tank. Build higher each time a lower floor fills up.

It would be a third floor above the second, but I think you've got it. The Alice's Restaurant solution.

Qwijib0
Apr 10, 2007

Who needs on-field skills when you can dance like this?

Fun Shoe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emx59FNCy34

complete household sewage treatment plant that can make potable water, this old house put it in a basement, but they have containerized versions

https://bussegt.com/systems-photos

Found a few references to price, looks like $25K ballpark to install, $500/yr to operate

Motronic
Nov 6, 2009

Qwijib0 posted:

complete household sewage treatment plant that can make potable water, this old house put it in a basement, but they have containerized versions

https://bussegt.com/systems-photos

Found a few references to price, looks like $25K ballpark to install, $500/yr to operate

That's wild.

And the pricing isn't the slightest bit believable or plausible because if that were correct/there weren't any catches literally nobody would have replaced a septic system from the very day that thing became available.

Arsenic Lupin
Apr 12, 2012

This particularly rapid💨 unintelligible 😖patter💁 isn't generally heard🧏‍♂️, and if it is🤔, it doesn't matter💁.


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Qwijib0
Apr 10, 2007

Who needs on-field skills when you can dance like this?

Fun Shoe

Arsenic Lupin posted:

I've already asked the septic engineers about a similar system. The problem is that they still have to have a place to discharge water to! It doesn't matter that it's potable and so on, it matters that I have to have a legal place for it to discharge to. Which is a matter for multiple boards, including the California Coastal Commission.

I think if we all become breathatarians it might work. If you don't need to eat, you presumably don't need to poop either.

holding tank and a solar-powered boiler to turn it into steam?

Sloppy
Apr 25, 2003

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

trevorreznik posted:

Short of researching tax issues for involuntary condemnation, what about paying to tie into your neighbor's sewer/septic setup? That might be more feasible than buying land.

I just don't know what else you can do on that size lot for the grey water from laundry and dishes.

It also seems like there should be some sort of absolutely comical 30 foot tall septic mound option that would be extremely cost prohibitive.

Yeah, no need to buy any of their property, just pay them a bunch of $$ for an easement. We saw one recently where the septic pipe actually had a little bridge running across a ravine onto the neighbor's property (jurisdiction was aware / it was permitted).

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TheBacon
Feb 8, 2012

#essereFerrari

Where abouts the california coast are you because this sounds wild as hell to me.

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