With all of the extra company we’ve had in the past couple of months, I’ve started to become concerned about overloading the leach field of our septic system. I’ve had to impose a moratorium on doing laundry and taking showers for a day or two on more than one occasion. I was commenting on my concerns to my friend George, and he was telling me that he had a gardening company catalog that I might be interested in taking a look at.
I wondered for a minute if he even heard what I was telling him; my leach field might be failing soon, and here he is talking about a gardening supply catalog? I asked him to explain what he was thinking about, and that’s when he said that my problem might be solved by putting in a dry well off of the laundry room and hooking it up with some irrigation supplies to some lawn sprinklers or soaker hoses so that the relatively clean gray water from doing the laundry doesn’t even go into the leach field, and instead is used to water an otherwise dry lawn. Since we don’t use harsh chemicals and bleach in our laundry, I thought that was a dandy of an idea!