Lake Straining Water as Part of a Redundant System for Potable Water
- By Larry Couture
- Published 08/17/2009
- Education
The lack of available water may have made the large acreage
parcel available near Corpus Christie Texas a bargain when
Terry Anderson envisioned his 5 acre lot development and
retirement home, Anderson calls George West Texas home when
not traveling the continent in his MCI Vision Coach
converted diesel pusher or cruising the Mississippi in his
56 foot Skipperliner yacht.
"Anderson knew there were problems getting enough water
from the well, cistern or catchment options and the
adjacent reservoir to support even a 2 person residence. He
created a four prong approach to solve these problems based
on his experience as a successful problem solver and
inventor."
In addition to their primary well as a water source, the
covenants on each 5 acre lakeshore lot required each owner
to set up a lake strain slow sand filter using ECOsmarte's
Glass Pack filtration media, a residential well water
treatment system to treat both the residential well water
and the lake water, complete with bacteria and algae
control in the required holding tanks.
As an early shareholder of ECOsmarte and a life long
inventor, Anderson knew with this approach he could sustain
the 5 acre residences (even with swimming pools) and went
one step further. All black water was to be used for
irrigation through an anaerobic system he developed for
both his bus and the boat.
"Only the dogs can tell which irrigation zones are black
water, and which ones are reservoir water. The dogs prefer
the treated black water." Anderson mused.
The Anderson's do not generate enough grey water or black
water to irrigate to the green grass standard from his days
in Minnetonka, MN so they have allowed one irrigation zone
and the auto fill on their pool to be supplied from their
holding tanks, which come from either the well or the
reservoir.
Anderson is well under way on his second development in the
water strapped Black Hills region of South Dakota, with one
well servicing multiple homes in another one of his five
acre lot projects.
Based on Anderson's success a similar package was
engineered for an upscale townhome group in Belize, and an
RO system was added to desalinate the water in both the
ocean source and the brine intruded well.
The Belize system draws first on the large cisterns, second
on the 8,000 sodium level well and the ocean at 40,000
sodium as the final option. This strategy minimizes the RO
operating cost.
parcel available near Corpus Christie Texas a bargain when
Terry Anderson envisioned his 5 acre lot development and
retirement home, Anderson calls George West Texas home when
not traveling the continent in his MCI Vision Coach
converted diesel pusher or cruising the Mississippi in his
56 foot Skipperliner yacht.
"Anderson knew there were problems getting enough water
from the well, cistern or catchment options and the
adjacent reservoir to support even a 2 person residence. He
created a four prong approach to solve these problems based
on his experience as a successful problem solver and
inventor."
In addition to their primary well as a water source, the
covenants on each 5 acre lakeshore lot required each owner
to set up a lake strain slow sand filter using ECOsmarte's
Glass Pack filtration media, a residential well water
treatment system to treat both the residential well water
and the lake water, complete with bacteria and algae
control in the required holding tanks.
As an early shareholder of ECOsmarte and a life long
inventor, Anderson knew with this approach he could sustain
the 5 acre residences (even with swimming pools) and went
one step further. All black water was to be used for
irrigation through an anaerobic system he developed for
both his bus and the boat.
"Only the dogs can tell which irrigation zones are black
water, and which ones are reservoir water. The dogs prefer
the treated black water." Anderson mused.
The Anderson's do not generate enough grey water or black
water to irrigate to the green grass standard from his days
in Minnetonka, MN so they have allowed one irrigation zone
and the auto fill on their pool to be supplied from their
holding tanks, which come from either the well or the
reservoir.
Anderson is well under way on his second development in the
water strapped Black Hills region of South Dakota, with one
well servicing multiple homes in another one of his five
acre lot projects.
Based on Anderson's success a similar package was
engineered for an upscale townhome group in Belize, and an
RO system was added to desalinate the water in both the
ocean source and the brine intruded well.
The Belize system draws first on the large cisterns, second
on the 8,000 sodium level well and the ocean at 40,000
sodium as the final option. This strategy minimizes the RO
operating cost.