Melting Ice

lebarondescarteun · Post by **lebarondescarteun** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 8:26 am

Are spilled drinking water or melted water from your ice chest considered grey water?

Dr. Pyro · Post by **Dr. Pyro** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 8:38 am

As long as it's just plain unadulterated water, then no. Or is this just an incredibly stupid question?

unjonharley · Post by **unjonharley** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 8:50 am

I keep one chest for icey drinking water or mix juice.

lebarondescarteun · Post by **lebarondescarteun** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 9:13 am

Sorry dr.pyro for being soooo stupid!Just trying to cover all basis!

unjonharley · Post by **unjonharley** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 9:22 am

lebarondescarteun wrote:Sorry dr.pyro for being soooo stupid!Just trying to cover all basis!

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You have my permision to light his fire..

Post by **AntiM** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 9:25 am

We don't dump our ice chests, we drain them and strain them and sprinkle them onto the road. Also makes for a nice chilly footbath.

MrMullen · Post by **MrMullen** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 10:33 am

If your melted ice has never touch food or any other like item, then it is just plain water. You can toss it onto the Playa but make sure to spread it out as to make sure that you don't create puddles.
If it has had any direct contact with food or like item, then it is gray water and should be processed as such. In the section of the camp I was in "charge of" (Use that term very loosely), I asked that all persons put their cooler water into the evap ponds just to make sure and to really make sure that no puddles were created. I stepped into a puddle this year without any shoes on and it is not ask fun as you might think it is.

Archantael · Post by **Archantael** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 10:44 am

Let's simplify this. Would you drink it? If so, you can pour it on the playa if you want. If it's not good enough for whatever reason to drink, then treat it as gray water.

mojo · Post by **mojo** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 11:48 am

We put clean cooler water in our overhead misting system.

For anyone with an RV, to conserve fresh water in the RV tank, turn off the water pump. Flush the toilet with grey water and only turn on the pump to fill fresh water containers, etc.

Lassen Forge · Post by **Lassen Forge** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 7:22 pm

And we use our clean melt for showers. Sun showers are a wonderful thing, as are water heaters!!!

robotland · Post by **robotland** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 6:10 am

Beware the Massive Brain Freeze that can occur when you soak a towel in your meltwater and then slap it on your head as a cooler...Whoa!

CLEAN Water Dispersal Techniques:

-Soak a towel, and then swing around your head to disperse.
-Using a small pot or cup, fling containerfuls up into the air in a tight arc. Watch the neighbors!
-Bring a little watering can, the type with a wide many-holed nozzle.
-Bring a sheet to soak and then hang in your shade structure, acting as a passive swamp cooler.
-(Thanks to The Admiral for this one) Add playa to the water, and make a sign that says "Free Miso Soup".

pinemom · Post by **pinemom** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 6:14 am

we used light weight muslim, I had a bunch of scraps of it...brought it to playa, then by wed/thursday I was gifting them to campmates...they were the BEST...Ice cooler water...evaperated both the muslim and your body heat!

unjonharley · Post by **unjonharley** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 8:17 am

pinemom wrote:we used light weight muslim, I had a bunch of scraps of it...brought it to playa, then by wed/thursday I was gifting them to campmates...they were the BEST...Ice cooler water...evaperated both the muslim and your body heat!

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My Brush hat has screening in the top, sides.. Phil has a hat just like it.. I fold a rag to a square the size of my head..Still folded, get the rag very wet..Slap it on the head and cover with the hat.. The air from just movng around evap's the water and cools the head..The damp rag also serves as a dust mask when needed..Again...less camp more fun fun fun.

My Gram showed me that.. Used it with a straw hat while haying..

timburly · Post by **timburly** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 9:38 pm

just somthing to think about. Would those who ticket you (LEO's) really pay attention if it was grey water or not? They are just gonna see you dumping water out and asume that it is grey water. Has anyone had any experience with this?

unjonharley · Post by **unjonharley** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 6:25 am

timburly wrote:just somthing to think about. Would those who ticket you (LEO's) really pay attention if it was grey water or not? They are just gonna see you dumping water out and asume that it is grey water. Has anyone had any experience with this?

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Never heard of any one getting a ticket..It's a matter if the BLM desides there has been to much grey water dumped on the playa...It would be no more Burning Man..The Blm is the land lord..Just like any where you rent..You go against the rules....Your out..Same thing go's if you piss all week along side your camp..Or any other of these funny rule you think are made up by BMorg..leave not trace or moop has a whole new meaning when it comes to the BLM..After we leave, there are inspections..They can throw a fit over one feather and the cleanup team have to take the brow beating.. Yes Burning has a clean up team that have to walk shoulder to shoulder back and forth across this desert..They have to pick up every butt and speck of plastice..If you think that job is fucked up..After the clean up the org has to kiss ass for a permitte for the next year of BM.