Definitely the former :-) But we'd all be up there at once a few times
a year, with lots of eating and drinking and kitchen use, so the peak
load of the septic needs to be high. Trying to get a sense of what it'd
cost to develop the land. The well and septic are the biggest unknowns.
jim
On 10/29/2014 3:03 PM, Mark Miller wrote:
> If this is a weekend retreat and summer kind of place you would not
> need to be able to perc the whole 25 folks all the time. It would
> take a larger holding tank, perhaps two cascading tanks, and a
> reasonable leech field. If it is your 'go to the hills society has
> collapsed' full time place then you would want more continuous support
> (and probably a local source of power). And you'd also want to really
> really vet those 24 other people well.
> For reference my leech field is for 5 bedrooms, which the county
> calculates as supporting 10 people. It has 356 linear feet of leech
> pipe and a 1500 gallon tank. Pipes are 8 feet apart, so roughly 3000
> square feet of leech field.
> This went in in Sonoma County in 2005; I know the codes have changed
> since then (if you care). More details? Just ask. HTH.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark Miller
> markmiller@threeboysfarm.com
>
> On 10/29/2014 11:00 AM, Jim Franklin <jamesf@groupwbench.org> wrote:
>> Some friends and I are very casually talking about building a place in
>> the woods that'd hold about 25 people. The land is completely
>> undeveloped but power and wells are on the adjacent property so it's
>> developable. At 75 gals/person/day we're looking at almost 2000
>> gals/day. Any idea what it'd cost for a system like this? This'd be in
>> the Sierra foothills of CA but I can extrapolate from your economy to
>> this one:-)
>>
>> (lets assume average perc rates, access difficulty etc)
>>
>> thanks,
>> jim
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