Sewerage disposal

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Gaura Sakti das from Sri Mayapur wrote:

 

Prabhu;

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

How are you? I remember well when you were living with us in Mayapur.

I see your texts constantly, and thought I'd ask you about something you

 

Here's what you said:

> All our temples have large amounts of waste. All our temples have large

> amounts of stool to deal with. All our large temples have a large amount

> of devotees. Composting for these temples is simply a management design

> problem.

 

How can the "large amounts of stool" be dealt with instead of general septic

treatment?

Please bear in mind that devotees wash after passing, and all systems are

wet systems, which I believe to be contrary to composting systems, which

need to be dry.

 

Can you explain this to me please?

Thanks.

Also, if you could summarize your experiment here in mayapur, and what the

final results and conclusions were, I would appreciate that as well.

thanks.

I hope you are well and happy.

Your servant,

Gaura Sakti Dasa

 

 

Dear Prabhu,

 

It is nice to hear from you. I hope all things are well with you in your

service to the Holy Dham.

 

Firstly, we sent two copies of our book to the SMPDC office at the request

of Samba prabhu. They should be available to you.

 

This title explains how on the basis of disposal of all animal waste from

the Goshala to composting in conjunction with other wastes produced on the

farm, or in our case and TEMPLE, one can achieve astounding fertility,

without the need for chemical fertilisers.

 

In our case I feel it is particularly relevant to include the aspect of

human effluent as is mentioned in chapter 6 of our title (The Lost Science

of Organic Cultivation) under the section entitled Further Investigations,

page 101. Howard writes: 'A beginning has been made in this direction

indicated by Mr. F.L. Brayne, I.C.S., Deputy Commissioner of Jhelum. He

designed a system which could be perfected (from his book: The Remaking of

Village India, Oxford University Press. 1929)The moment a suitable method of

dealing with sanitation has been designed the influence of the process on

the general health of the public and on the fertility of the land becomes

manifest, and the results can be carried further. The public health of all

establishments can then be considered as one subject. In place of the

present expensive division of those aspects of the general problem of

sanitation, which deal with solid wastes, in to a number of imperfectly

related items, such as the disposal of night soil, the use of soaps and

disinfectants, the collection and destruction by burning of vegetable wastes

and (the giving away, in Mayapur of) fallen leaves, cut grass, old straw

etc.,. The prevention of fly nuisance, the purification and safeguarding of

the water supply....it will be possible to transform all these waste

products of the population into valuable humus in a scientific way, and so

avoid most if not all the existing problems. Such results, as far as urban

areas are concerned, will be the work of years..'

 

I will stop quoting there. The work of years is now coming to fruition!

In the UK we are making great headway with the Environmental health

department and the Environmnet Agency.

Our Composting systems namely the Satvik Indore Toilet (domestic scale) and

the MegaLOO 2000 (industrial unit) are of increasing demand for households

and large scale festivals.

 

We can save both concerns large amounts of money.

A domestic sanitation installation can cost five thousand pounds here in UK.

With the Satvik Indore Toilet the cost is £200.00 per toilet and some

plastic pipe and a couple of plastic 5 litre spring water bottles (recycled)

 

For instance on the commercial scale I have a customer who is taking in

65,000 people over five sites for the Eclipse 99 festival. We have offered

our services saving him 5-10,000 pounds per site for sanitation by way of

dry composting technology. And the end product can be applied to his fields

free of charge (in this case). The interest is intense.

 

The unique patented filter system in both models is the key to success. This

I perfected in your office while in Calcutta in 1996. We took this design to

Navadwip and had the first proto-types made. They were installed in several

locations at the Goshala housing accomodation. They were used and emptied

onto the Goshala compost heaps wihtout any complaint from neighbors.

The one used at the staff asrama at the Goshala was emptied onto three

little heaps (in rotation) kept by the calf pen on the side of the passing

road to the Goshala. These heaps were included in the video made by the

Swiss devotee who lives in Mayapur who came to the Compost factory to film

it for the SMPDC office. This video has I beleive been mislaid - Akandadhi

does not know where it is. I would like to get a copy of this video. We now

have developed still further to the degree that if you add a paper potato

sack, cut down to size, and place it in the toilet and make holes in the

bottom no straw filter is required. When this is full it is folded over and

the lid put on and taken out to the compost heap and the bag in its entirety

is thrown onto the Indore compost heap. You never have to see or smell

anything. So in our advertising it has now become - the toilet you never

have to clean out!

 

The reason we placed these trhee rotational heaps by the road was for the

sole purpose of showing how they did not smell. All personell walked passed

these heaps to parikrama. No one even knew what they were. In the video, the

16 day old heap was turned by one of our staff in front of the camera -

there was no visible evidence or smell of human stool.

 

Therefore we consider the experiment a success. What to speak of the end

results in agriculture. Deva Dina Dayal prabhu saw that 15 foot corn was

grown on this product after I had left. I personally grew melons on rock

with this compost in my garden there and a whole other array of vegetables.

 

Filtering out the liquid, including the washing water is of prime

importance. This liquid is containerised throughout via the (sole plumbing

arrangement) plastic pipe and therefore creates no nuisance by way of smell

or fly attraction. This is later applied to the heaps as a moisture balance

which is essential to the composting process.

 

In ninety days (or sometimes 60 in India) a finely dividable nitrogenous

fertiliser is obtained and having been (natutrally) through the high

temperatures (65 degrees C) involved with thermophylic composting is

rendered completely safe and free from pathogens. I have a scientific report

now to this effect compiled in the UK. It is called the 'Chelsen Meadows

Report' and is available if required.

 

The Thames water board are selling 3,000 tons (last year) of human compost

through 170 outlets to the public and the demand way oustrips the supply.

This is due to the awareness of the importance of recycling here in the UK.

I met with five of their directors today and they are offering me to supply

them with similar material from our services.

As you can see I am not the only one involved with such a programme.

 

As you will see in this chapter 6, the large scale model is very crude in

its state in this book, but we have since developed it further and it is now

containerised to suit more modern conditions and personell. It is also very

cheap to buy and run. This will improve the working conditions of the bungee

class - which already exists there in India and Mayapur (confirmed also by

Gurudaksine prabhu, currently in the UK.)

 

The logistics of such systems are simply dependant on correct ratios of

human waste to medium, which is freely available in Mayapur Dham.

Figures available.

 

I hope this is a satisfactory introduction for you. Please do not hesitate

to contact us further if you so desire.

 

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

 

Yours servant,

 

Radha Krsna das.