From Alar Engineering Corp.

Did you know that song of the larger volume stone shops will consume well over 200 gpm of water daily? That's a lot of water. So what do you do with 20,000 to 100,000 gallons or more of wastewater a day?

Some stone shops choose to discharge the water into a city sewer, an on-site septic system, or perhaps to a retention pond or drainage ditch. However, the federal and state laws required to do such industrial discharge can be "painful" and the monitoring of the discharged water can be very time consuming. You can avoid all of the Federal and State regulations and be a conscious environmental steward and choose to recycle your water. Recycling your water is not only economical, but environmentally wise.

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