[Shop-talk] Shop-talk Digest, Vol 8, Issue 156

[Mark Miller]

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 at threeboysfarm.com

On 10/29/2014 11:00 AM, Jim Franklin <jamesf at 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