Composting Toilet

From Miller Farm

Composting toilet construction and usage has been approved by the city environmental specialist. Now we're drawing up plans and preparing funding requests. Want to get involved? Send us an e-mail! (http://www.earlham.edu/webteam/resources/eav/?u=farmers)

Meetings

Minutes, April 1 2005

Bins

  • concrete floor
  • open brick walls (see drawings)
  • lexan covers for tops of 2 bins
  • lexan doors for 3 bins, open upward, south facing
  • concrete filled, steel pipes in corners to support building
  • pipes filled only part way, building with posts that lock into pipes

Building

  • sits on top of bins, locks in to them (see above)
  • plywood - light!
  • shingle roof
  • insulation? will it make building too heavy?
  • movable stairs in back, to north

New moving mechanism:

  • building slides on tracks, pins lock it in place (need to think about this more!)

Money

  • Devin - $100 (this is in the Ag. account now)
  • Mic J.? show him plans
  • EEAC - $100-$500
  • Doug B.
  • Miller Farm maintenance budget