What? This would defeat the purpose of a water change. The crap you want to get rid of will not evaporate.
Where do you dump your dirty saltwater?
- Thread starter samksy
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What? This would defeat the purpose of a water change. The crap you want to get rid of will not evaporate.
I use bleach as a way to avoid local waters contamination. Sure enough, the waste waters goes thru some pretty nasty treatment (also called human crap) in the sewer. But since I have Caulerpa's that grew from my live rock, I prefer to take whatever precautions I can at my level. Same goes with dumping copepods and co.
- Location
- Franklin Square, NY
toilet..been doing it almost every week for over twenty years..no problems
- Location
- Huntington
Yep me too, I don't worry about a little salt and a few microbes going into the sewer of NYC.... Only the almighty knows what people flush in this city on a daily basis....
Well, since my home is about a 100 yds from NYC drinking water/ reservoir ... You're probably drinking my old saltwater
- Location
- Huntington
Yummy, you have the most refreshing and disease free (salt) water. Can't wait for your next water change
might be tonight right... Once or twice...
- Location
- Queens/Flushing/Whitestone/NYC
Guys, thanks for all your input. I think i'll pump the water out to the street in the summer and dump the water in the slop sink in the winter and flush with fresh water afterward. I hope i don't have to dig up the rusty pump in a few year, as i intend to stay here for another 30 years....lol!
- Location
- staten island,ny
Right out at the street
- Location
- New Jersey
Down the toilet it goes or if when im lazy I just dump it out my apartment window next to a iron company lol.
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- Location
- Greenpoint Brooklyn
- Location
- Rego Park, Queens
toilet
- Location
- Queens/Flushing/Whitestone/NYC
hahahahha!!! your good!
- Location
- New Jersey
Yea why not lol my excuse "sorry I was trying off my clothes" lol
- Location
- Sullivan Co
It's sooo refreshing seeing there is at least one person here doing the right thing by bleaching the waste water before dumping it into the public sewer. These are potentially invasive species that could do ecological harm if let into the ocean.
I've always wanted to research building a small seashore niche garden that would welcome my 10 gallons of waste water 6x monthly. I have a spot that drains under the porch that i dump to; in the winter I use the wc water for ice control on the drive. Im far from any municipal drains.
I've always wanted to research building a small seashore niche garden that would welcome my 10 gallons of waste water 6x monthly. I have a spot that drains under the porch that i dump to; in the winter I use the wc water for ice control on the drive. Im far from any municipal drains.
- Location
- Staten Island ny
Can't be as bad as dumping caulerpa into the Atlantic lol
- Location
- Sullivan Co
It's not at all uncommon for the sewer dept to have to divert the drains and dump raw sewage. Water that runs down the street into storm drains receives no treatment. Why not use an ounce of prevention?
- Location
- Park Slope
I vote toilet.
Reminded me of a not so funny story from high school. My buddys tank was far from the bathroom so he got lazy and started draining his tank out the window, right at the base of a 30' pine tree. After a month or so the pine was dead. His parents weren't to happy to say the least.
Reminded me of a not so funny story from high school. My buddys tank was far from the bathroom so he got lazy and started draining his tank out the window, right at the base of a 30' pine tree. After a month or so the pine was dead. His parents weren't to happy to say the least.
- Location
- Queens/Flushing/Whitestone/NYC
Hahaha!!! i have been dump water change to my tree outside my house for 1/2 year, and that damn tree is still alive!!!! i want to kill it...lol!
- Location
- Amityville, NY
This is a great idea. I wonder how well it works. So the night before a storm, I can do a water change and dump the water down my driveway? Is there enough salt content to prevent freezing?
- Location
- Queens, NY
If I dumped my water, (which I don't since I don't do water changes), but what little water I generate goes into my fully lit, hair algae fulled, 30gal QC tank, which is also a reservior, from which I pull water out of sometimes. Dirty water goes in, clean water comes out.
I have a MA in sewage treatment, so from what I can remember...
Yes sea water will cause your pipes to rust. unless they are galvanized or PVC. You mentioned a sump pump? that might rust too.
If you have a septic tank, salt doesn't bother the biological sludge, it will adapt, but it does build up in the ground and is bad for agriculture.
I have a MA in sewage treatment, so from what I can remember...
Yes sea water will cause your pipes to rust. unless they are galvanized or PVC. You mentioned a sump pump? that might rust too.
If you have a septic tank, salt doesn't bother the biological sludge, it will adapt, but it does build up in the ground and is bad for agriculture.
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