Forget everything you think you know about conventional wastewater system design. Crazed genius Tom Watson has come up with a design which breaks every rule in the book.
You could call it a shallow cesspool which receives rainwater as well as sewage, and has an overflow to daylight (that sound you hear is the rules breaking).
Or, you could call it a subsurface bioswale which provides all the advantages of a flush toilet, septic system, and composting toilet, with lush plants around it and few of the disadvantages.
Tom has installed systems at 9000 feet in New Mexico. The oldest systems are pushing thirty. Some are working perfectly, some are not.
Something highly significant is definitely going on here. If you ask Tom how they work, you'll get an answer that sounds like the the sound of one hand clapping. Tom really knows his stuff, but he thinks so far out of the box that it is hard to grok what he is saying sometimes.
What this technology really needs is a grad student to to a thesis on it. Each system should be inventoried, photographed, drawn, measured, and characterized as to it's context and performance
More info here: Oasis Design
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