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Re: plant beds for treatment of rinse water from metal sculpture studio
- To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: plant beds for treatment of rinse water from metal sculpture studio
- From: Scott Pittman <pci@permaculture-inst.org>
- Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 12:40:26 -0600
- In-reply-to: <LYRIS-101940-85247-2000.10.14-13.50.16--pci#permaculture-inst.org@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Newsgroups: permaculture
I would check out fungi perfecti or Paul Stamets who has
done a lot of work on using mushrooms for cleaning up toxic waste.
Since you are in good mushroom country this might be the best
approach. I believe that Fungi Perfecti has a web site.
Good luck!
Scott
At 01:50 PM 10/14/00 -0400, you wrote:
I'm looking for advice on how to use plants to
clean rinse water of
various VOCs like various glycol ethers, also sometimes very
alkaline
metal cleaners, other times acidic zinc/phosphoric acid metal cleaners.
All the materials are waterbased, and the rinse water has a pretty
low
concentration of the materials. It seems possible that the
right
selection of plants, in some kind of special treatment area, could
clean
the water from my studio before it reaches
groundwater.