System allows lighthouse to be converted into a bed-and-breakfast
Problem: When the lighthouse keeper’s house on Cuckolds Island in Maine was in use, it had an overboard discharge. Faced with demolition, a local group fought to save the lighthouse. During the renovation, it was decided to make the residence a bed-and-breakfast. There needed to be a way to treat and dispose of about 500 gpd of wastewater. The initial plan was to pump the wastewater through a 1.5-mile pipe on the ocean bed and up the shore to the mainland, where it would go under a pond and road to a
