Filtered lake water as part of a redundant system for drinking water

Lack of available water may have made the large parcel available near Corpus Christie Texas a bargain when Terry Anderson envisioned his 5-acre lot development and retirement home, Anderson calls George West Texas home when not traveling the mainland on his MCI Vision Coach converted to pusher diesel or cruising down the Mississippi on his 56-foot Skipperliner yacht.

“Anderson knew there were problems getting enough water from the well, cistern, or catchment options and the adjacent reservoir to support even a 2-person residence. He created a four-pronged approach to solving these problems based on his experience as an inventor and successful problem solver.”

In addition to their main well as a water source, covenants on each 5-acre lakefront lot required each homeowner to install a slow lake stress sand filter using ECOsmarte’s Glass Pack filtration media, a treatment system of residential well water to treat both the residential well water and the lake water, complete with bacteria and algae control in the required holding tanks.

As an early ECOsmarte shareholder and lifelong inventor, Anderson knew that with this approach he could sustain 5-acre residences (even with pools) and went one step further. All the black water would be used for irrigation through an anaerobic system he developed for both his bus and boat.

“Only dogs can tell which irrigation areas are blackwater and which are reservoir water. Dogs prefer treated blackwater.” Anderson reflected.

The Andersons do not generate enough gray water or black water to irrigate the green grass standard of their days in Minnetonka, MN, so they have allowed an irrigation zone and automatic fill for their pool to be supplied from their holding tanks, that come from either the well or the reservoir.

Anderson is underway on his second development in the water-stressed Black Hills region of South Dakota, with a well serving several homes on another of his five-acre lot projects.

Based on Anderson’s success, a similar package was designed for a group of luxury townhomes in Belize, adding a reverse osmosis system to desalinate the water at both the ocean source and brine well.

Belize’s system resorts to the large cisterns first, the 8,000 sodium well second, and the 40,000 sodium ocean as a final option. This strategy minimizes the operating cost of RO.