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 of shower, so they have to be cleaned quite often. It is
 kind of a maintenance headache for us.
 
 Another big obstacle in that area is that, obviously, the
 water that goes into the system has to come out somewhere.
 We consume between 50,000 and 75,000 gallons per day. Once
 it goes through the laundry and goes through the shower and
 goes through the dining hall, it all ends going somewhere.
 Where it is goes is called the gray water pond. With the
 soil conditions around here, because we are so close to sea
 level, the water does not soak into the ground at all, and
 it does not evaporate. We have got a constant problem of
 what to do with this water that is discharged through our
system.  We are working to put in our own mini-lift station,
 if you want to call it that, and push the water out to the
 desert using bigger pumps so that we get that health hazard
 away from the camp as far as possible. That is a project
 that we are working on now and hope to have more or less
 done within the next month or so.
 
 Q: That is called a what?
 
 F: A lift station is in a sewer system, and it just pushes the
 sewage from one location to another. We are more or less
 building our own so that once the water is discharged from
 the showers or the laundry or whatever it goes to a central
 holding tank and then is pumped from that tank well out into
 the desert. What we are doing right now is, we have to use
 a pumped truck and go around and pump this stuff
 continuously 24 hours a day, and that keeps those guys quite
 busy also, trying to keep up with the discharge sewage and
 water.
 
 This might be a good place to stop for now. I have got
 about another 2 pages to talk about
 
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