Amish story for Angies pleasure.

[bali]

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Published: February 14, 2008 11:24 pm

Amish outhouses prompt citations

BY SUSAN EVANS

EBENSBURG — An Amish schoolhouse in Barr Township has unpermitted outhouses that are illegally emptied onto farm fields, sewage enforcement officials say.

After meetings with Amish elders did not resolve the situation, the Cambria County Sewage Enforcement Agency filed citations Thursday with District Judge Michael Zungali of Hastings.

The law provides fines ranging from $1,000 to $10,000 for each offense.

“We respect the religious beliefs of the Amish. But the agency expects the Amish to honor and respect our state laws,” said Deborah Sedlmeyer, executive director of the Cambria County Sewage Enforcement Agency, which administers state sewage law for 35 municipalities in Cambria and Somerset counties.

The outhouses, instead of being placed over a tank that is legally emptied, have plastic buckets under the seats, and the waste is dumped onto farm fields, neighbors said.

Amish families of the ultraconservative Swartzentruber sect began moving from Ohio to the northern portion of the county, between Ebensburg and Nicktown, about 10 years ago.

Their old-world customs often

[angmf2233]

I didn't think you were BSing us Bali, I had just never heard this before. We got lots of Amish here around Lancaster! Thanks for the update B!!!!!!!

[bali]

Just in case of doubts in anyones minds...............

I back up my word.

[lisa831]

The amish around here do the same thing,and put on there gardens,so no Sh** berry for me,no joking.

[bali]

Hooray Lisa........

Not sure I could hack that food of theirs.b

They are not too far up the road from us. Say 15 mile.
Ok people , but its what they want to be.

[marasri]

Here is a humorous introduction to the Human manure book. It makes me think about the times when I am running out of water in my rain collecting system and here I am taking a dump in my drinking water.
http://weblife.org/humanure/chapter0.html

[angmf2233]

Here is a humorous introduction to the Human manure book. It makes me think about the times when I am running out of water in my rain collecting system and here I am taking a dump in my drinking water.
http://weblife.org/humanure/chapter0.html

That was interesting Marasri!!!!!!!!!HaHa!!!!!!!!!Something new to try! Although I'm not gonna!

[marasri]

OH you, fecalphobe.

[angmf2233]

You called that right!!

[bali]

ANGIE .......WALK AROUND AN AT NITE AN SEE WHAT GOES ON IN THE FIELDS.lol





B

[marasri]

I have been thinking of getting a composting toilet for my house. My friends have had one now for 30 yeaRs. When they had a child, he felt deprived. He wanted to flush. he would go over to the neighbor and flush and flush and flush. It was a huge house and the poor child felt deprived. Great house with passive solar atrium. 3 flours dripping off a hill. They used the ground cooled half basement to cool the air and then suck it up to the rest of the house. He also had his rainwater collection tank underground and he had air ducts that circulated air through the water. It cooled the air and then pumped back into the house. It was his air conditioner. His toilet was a deluxe Clivis fulcrum toilet from sweden. It was a bit more advanced then the type talked about in the article. He emptied it about once a year. he had great gardens.

[bali]

Sounds like a texan with lots of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

[marasri]

He is an artist (illustrator/grafhic designer) and his wife is a now retired fire woman. They built it with their own hands with available cash because the banks were not funding "green Building" back in the mid 70's. They lived in a one room cabin for years. His dad has some money but not huge. Just a owner of a now defunct electrical supply house. They did it out of scrounged materials. I remember helping them pick up this huge haul of spalted pecan for pennies on the foot. The Mexican railroad wanted them and then backed off on the order. There was huge stacks out in a field starting to rot in a field in Bastrop TX.. All their timber framing and wainscoting was done in it. We got as much as we could store and used it for years in our furniture and house. God that was beaUTIFUL stuff.

[bali]

Thats nice dedication.

[miamipanda]

Mara,

That house sounds amazing! I hope I can get a chance to see something like that someday.

Isn't the issue with human waste used at fertilizer for edibles come from the difference in our diets? Most livestock feed predominantly on vegetables and grasses... which have a very low microbial load. But meat and diary products have very high microbial loads.. (high in microorganisms)..... therefore our waste is more susceptial to contain harmful pathogens.

Don't get me wrong.... I am just deducing why it is more of a concern to use as fertilizer on veggies. Oh, and we often eat vegetable raw, in which case the harmful bacteria is not killed prior to eating.

But hey, the Amish have been doing this for years, you say? Perhaps because their livestock are healthier. The livestock that are a product of the meat industry today are crowded in horrible conditions. So perhaps the meat and dairy that th Amish eat is healthier and has lower microbial loads???? Therefore their human waste could be healthier? LOL! Who knows?