On 18 Apr 2007 16:46:47 -0700, wrote:

My wife and I are planning the build of a rural home in Hawaii next
year. And forgive a city boy for asking, but when a house is using a
cesspool system instead of city sewer, does the laundry, bath and
other grey water also go into the cesspool, or is there some other
treatment process for that type of wastewater.


Technical nit: A cesspit is one particular kind of individual
septic disposal system. Specifically, it's a big,
pourous pit that the sewege goes into, from which the sewage
percolates directly into the ground, or sits there until
someone comes and pumps it out. I doubt that you'll
be putting in a cess-pit.


More likely, you'll end up putting in a septic TANK and leachfield,
possibly with a grease-trap. In that case, whether you can get
away with dumping laundry water into the same system as the
rest of your sewage depends on whether you design the system to
handle that much water. Are you going to be on a well,
a water catchment, or a municiple water supply?