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Every lot closes its own loop — proven humanure composting and greywater reuse, done to one documented standard that stands up to a regulator.
The realistic, road-tested answer to human waste here isn't a sewage plant — it's per-lot thermophilic humanure composting (the sawdust-bucket method: collect, hot-compost for a year or two until it's clean, sweet-smelling soil). A 3-acre lot absorbs its own output with room to spare, and the cured compost feeds the trees and the food forest. A closed loop on your own ground — no pipes, no pump-out truck, no monthly bill. (Done right, for years — it works.)
Collecting waste from 500 scattered lots would be a logistics nightmare, and a central sewage plant means kilometres of pipe, a treatment works, and a single thing that can break and take everyone down with it. Decentralized is cheaper, more resilient, and has no single point of failure — each home stands on its own.
Sink and shower water is kept separate and reused — to irrigate gardens and the greenhouse — so drinking-quality water is never spent on the garden. Two streams, both useful, neither wasted.
Honest part: BC's Sewerage System Regulation governs on-site sewage, and composting-toilet / humanure systems sit in a watched grey zone. The way you stay out of a fight is to do it properly and document it. So the commons sets one defensible standard — built from real, lived experience — that every lot follows to the same spec, with records. Sanitation done to a clear, repeatable standard isn't just safe; it's what keeps a regulator from ever becoming a problem.
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