Hello LF Experts -
Anyone have a darkroom in a scenic far-off place with no city water or sewer, but plenty of water at that?
I may be moving to a place would be similar to living in a national park in many ways. Scenic, lots of well and surface water, septic system, but no sewer. Naturally (no pun intended), I'll want to have a darkroom to make some great prints of the negs I've been collecting.
BUT - I don't want to run afoul of environmental regulations (can research that easily), and I really don't want to end up drinking cesium chloroplatinate, ferric oxalate, silver salts, or whatever else tends to go with silver and non-silver B&W processes; I also don't want my neighbors kids to be born with 5 arms and one eye or anything else.
Assume that the environmental regs where I will move are pretty tight...
Everything I can think of leans toward separate waste water storage systems and industrial hauling to processing centers for the wash water and chems, and then tanks and conservation measures to supply enough water to wash, etc. It sounds like a regular good sized engineering project big enough to make me rent an industrial facility many miles away instead.
And well, I sure don't want to be stuck doing inkjets for my final prints. I figure I can afford about 10 grand for environmental systems, especially if they minimize hauling liquids out.
Does anyone have ideas or tips to share from their experience doing darkroom work on their property in a rural area, or an unincorporated area that still has pretty stiff environmental regulations? (and of course, this assumes that you actually comply with the laws willingly) If you have more than 7 legs/arms/antennae, or can produce cold-bath processed Ziatypes by breathing on the paper, you need not answer.
Thoughts on this much appreciated...
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