Do you have electricity. You could put in your own storage tank in an
insulated building with minimal heat but I think an outhouse is a "seat of
your pants" project (don't mind the pun) that you make up as you go. You
will need to move it periodically depending on usage or you could make a
concrete pad and clean out the hole in summer after it has had time to
compost. If usage is low, I would put it on a platform with a container I
could remove for cleanout in the spring or before I go home (5 gal pail with
lid will do). Can you get a truck to come in and pump it out in spring. If
so I might go with a permanent small shed with rear access for cleanout
(this could be attached to the house). This would require a vent from the
tank to the roof (3" ABS) so it wont be so smelly inside (especially if the
door seals well)


"SteveB" wrote in message
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"SQLit" wrote

Not since the 60's. Where is your well? This old house did an episode
that where they drilled a well and it had to be 100 feet away from the
septic tank's leach field. What do the regs in your cabin's location say?

Why does the water freeze up in the winter? When we lived on the farm the
folks put in a plastic pipe from the well that expanded faster than the
water could freeze. Anyway that is what I remember. When it was 10 or so
below zero dad always put the kitchen faucet on a slow run to make the
pump
run and keep the water moving.



The "well" is about 300' uphill. It is a pipe drilled into rock to tap a
spring 30' into the rock. It then comes into a 1,000 gallon tank. All
houses downhill are fed by head pressure.

The piping is hardly buried, someplaces exposed. This is a rough
primitive area. The tank would freeze popsicle hard in the winter, so the
system is drained between September 15, and October 1st. It is then
filled up April-May.

It would cost many thousands of dollars to just bury the pipe to a proper
depth, but the cost of keeping the source tank insulated and heated for
all year would be prohibitive. There are nine lots in this "development."
There are only four cabins. Most just snowmobile in during the winter,
and carry enough water for basics.

According to all public records, there is NO water in this subdivision.
(mountainside) County permits and codes applied to the building of each
dwelling and structure.

I love it there.

STeve