In the late 70's and early 80's I had a house with septic system and 160
foot deep well and my darkroom chemicals simply went into the septic
tank. Guess I was environmetally naive at the time but I really didn't
do much processing at home. Never had any kind of problem that I was
aware of. I lived there over a 10 year period but the darkroom was
probably only ever used during the first 5 years and then not very much.
To the best of my knowledge the well was 160 feet deep through stone.
After all, we lived in Woodstock, NY (yes, that Woodstock). Alf Evers,
the local town historian used to say: "You'll know when you get to
Woodstock when you reach the place that has two stones for every dirt."
Chuck Norcutt
NSURIT@xxxxxxx wrote:
> I plan to sell my home and begin construction on a new (retirement) home
> next year and am considering having a dedicated B&W darkroom built. The
> area in
> which I'm building doesn't have city water and/or sewage, so we will have a
> well and a septic system. Does anyone have any experience with dumping B&W
> chemicals into a septic system. The well will be at a depth 400 to 600 ft
> and
> essentailly will be drilled through fairly solid limestone. The hypo would
> either be taken somewhere else to disposed of or if not, treated for removal
> of the silver prior to being dumped. The B&W film would be exposed in OM
> cameras and yes, others of medium and large format. <{8^) Bill Barber
>
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