what do you do with old water when wet tumbling

[cspurlock]

I have been wet tumbling for a couple months now and I have just been dumping the old water on my lawn. I went to a reloading class this weekend and the instructor was telling me how contaminated that water is with lead. So I was wondering what precautions you guys are using (if any) to not touch the water with your bare hands, and how are you disposing of it of the dirty water?

[wbunning]

I open my sewer clean-out and dump it and the first rinse there. Subsequent Rinse water goes on the plants. After shooting, loading, casting, cleaning, I scrub up with Hygenall LeadOff.

[racinjason233]

well now that I know it is contaminated I'll be by soon to dump mine old water on your lawn too...

JK

i alone put hundreds of pounds down range. Now think about how many shooters are in the desert every week. I don't think a little tiny bit will hurt anything. Is your grass still alive? Why not dump it in the gutter and mix it with the largest body of water on earth? The pacific should dilute it fairly rapidly.

[tonyjr]

Mine goes into a 5 gallon bucket . Then when I have several[ later that night ] I dump into storm drain .
The weeds around it seem to like the water , but as for plnts / grass - I don't want to take a chance of killing either or tracking into house .

[RogerOrange]

Poor into Gopher hole

[knucklehead0202]

Doesn't this belong in the prius forum? Seriously, the concentration of contaminants in this water are already diluted, dumping them just about anywhere would make almost NO environmental impact whatsoever.

Worry about your idiot neighbor with the stupid Tesla, not your tumbling water. I swear being in California spreads crazy ideas like cancer...

[baranski]

. I swear being in California spreads crazy ideas like cancer...

Sure does.

[bhilliker@comcast.net]

Interesting enough I just returned from a week long brutal class on hazardous waste----the question was asked by the instructor----where is the most contaminated spot at a range??? The answer----the RSO's vehicles. There have been kids who have gotten lead poising from the car seats in their parents cars----the parents have been RSO's. Something to think about.

[cspurlock]

Doesn't this belong in the prius forum? Seriously, the concentration of contaminants in this water are already diluted, dumping them just about anywhere would make almost NO environmental impact whatsoever.

Worry about your idiot neighbor with the stupid Tesla, not your tumbling water. I swear being in California spreads crazy ideas like cancer...

Believe me I am far from a tree hugger, but having survived cancer twice I tend to be a bit more cautious then I was before. Just trying to get a feel if I was the only one sticking my hand in the water with reckless abandon or if everyone was doing something else I was not aware of.

[Mayor McRifle]

I dump it out in my backyard, near some bushes -- the same bushes I've been dumping it out next to for years.

[Whiterabbit]

I have a chemical trap in my yard. Just an old bottomless winebox (trash) set in the ground and filled with the rocks i dig up when tilling. Solvent, acid, oil,whatever, including wastewater goes in there. Anything but paint. In a spot of the yard noone can see and nothing would grow. Nothing for sure now!

[tonyjr]

I do wear latex gloves most of time when reloading and even chanhing the water . Not because of worry about lead - I got a sliver from pins , it got infected - doctor cut it out .

[tylenol9999]

How about the toilet?


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[Lead Waster]

I have a chemical trap in my yard. Just an old bottomless winebox (trash) set in the ground and filled with the rocks i dig up when tilling. Solvent, acid, oil,whatever, including wastewater goes in there. Anything but paint. In a spot of the yard noone can see and nothing would grow. Nothing for sure now!

That's not a bad idea, the cardboard box.

Even if you want to just dump the water onto the lawn (Which is what I do actually), if you just dump it into a cardboard box instead, the water will sort of filter a bit. After a while you have a filthy cardboard box, then I guess you can dispose of it however you see fit.

I think a lot of the dirty stuff in the water is not lead, but dirt and whatever the carbon residue is (maybe it's just carbon).

I guess if you have a large barrel or something, you could also just pour the water into it, and let the water evaporate. When you have enough solid crap at the bottom, scoop it into a paintcan and dispose of it.

I'm guessing, however, that a single oil change probably contains worse stuff than a decade of cleaning brass (I'm totally guessing)

[Whiterabbit]

My winebox is wood. I knocked the bottom out. about 15"x12" in dimension. It sits on the ground below my 200A service box (lines come in on the roof). Half buried in the ground. Into the hole goes all the busted up concrete bits I dig out now and again, little rocks I dig out of new garden beds, etc. Bits of broken brick. The accumulated detritus of a 60 year old house. It's basically a small gravel pit.

This is a permanent installation in my yard, in an area noone ever looks at. Takes up 4 square feet that need to be unoccupied anyways for service area. So it works out nicely.

Not like I need to ditch more than a quart of chemical at a time, so that's enough of a management system.

And keeps the crap out of the yard areas I care about.