How do you construct a Sand Filter?

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In the archives many of you mentioned running your catchement water through a "sand filter". How do you put one together? Thanks. Enjoy your life.

-- Deborah (bearwaoman@Yahoo.com), April 08, 2001

Answers

I have used a cooler with a drain spigot in it as a sand filter. Fill the cooler with sand, then run the water in the top, catch it at the drain.

-- Jay Blair in N. AL (jayblair678@yahoo.com), April 08, 2001.

Jay-how do you keep the sand from 'leaking' out the drain with the water? Some sort of screen, perhaps?

-- Joe (Threearrs@AOL.com), April 09, 2001.

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