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Acquire your necessary supplies before the disaster. After a Disaster, DO…  \n DO seek information from your community emergency manager  \n DO follow all instructions for storage & disposal from fire, law, emergency management and sanitation officials  \n DO use a Twin-Bucket Emergency Toilet and keep the pee and poo separate for disease & odor control  \n DO add carbon materials: [finely shredded paper, sawdust, wood chips, dried leaves, peat moss][1-2 scoops with each poo] to your poo bucket for moisture & odor control.  \n DO store the pee and poo in separate buckets & WAIT for disposal instructions from authorities  \n One person will fill a 5-gal bucket with poo and 2 scoops of carbon mulch [for each poo] in 2 weeks  \n Two persons will fill 5-gal bucket in 1 week  \nAFTER A DISASTER: DO NOT:  \n• Do not flush a toilet or dispose of pee and poo, until told it’s OK, by your local emergency officials.  \n• Do not dig a pit toilet. Seasonally saturated soils & disease organisms in poo can easily contaminate our water supply.  \n• Do not place baby or adult diapers, sanitary pads, or bagged pet waste in pee or poo buckets. Dispose of them in the trash.  \nHygiene is Critical to Preserving Health  \n Hand-washing is critical for food prep, eating, first-aid, & the twin-bucket toilet area.  \n Wash with water-conserving foaming soap.  \n Use hand sanitizers, disposable gloves & wipes to help conserve your emergency water supply.  \nIf you Care for Medically Fragile Persons  \n Consider having a bedside commode readily available and over the TwinBucket Emergency Toilet.  \n The Twin-Bucket bedside commode allows injured or medically fragile persons to manage safely.  \nTwin-Bucket  \nEmergency Toilet  \n for Mason County Sewer Systems  \nWhen the ground shakes: water, septic & sewer lines break! Flush toilets should not be used!  \nPrevent disease & keep your drinking water clean  \nby keeping the  \nour ground water  \nHave an Emergency Sanitation Plan before the sewer system breaks.  \nWhy do we need buckets in our emergency kits? Earthquakes!  \nEarthquakes [& other disasters] cause severe damage to water, sewer & septic systems, preventing our plumbed toilets from working properly. Earthquake activity in the Pacific NW is greater than overall US average.  \nRecent earthquakes in New Zealand left 50,000 people without a functioning sewer system. They were unable to use flush toilets for months. They adopted the twin-bucket toilet system during the emergency stage of the crisis. Not mixing urine [pee] and poo reduces odor and is superior to camping toilets, trench or pit latrines. The twinbucket emergency toilet adapted from New Zealand even works for apartment dwellers. In Mason county it is used following a disaster to prevent contamination of our surface and drinking water supply.  \nCredits & Much Thanks  \nJefferson County Dept. Emergency Management Public Hygiene Lets Us Stay Human [PHLUSH] Portland Bureau of Emergency Management A Sewer Catastrophe Companion  \nNew Zealand Permaculture Emergency.  \nResponse Network  \nBrochure prepared by Mason County Department of Emergency Management, Questions: 360-427-7535  \nTwin-Bucket Toilet is:  \n Simple: to acquire, it’s safe & manageable  \n Affordable: [buckets, lids & seat cost $20 or less]  \n Compact: [Hygiene supplies in nested bucket] keeps everything together  \nGetting Everything Together:  \n Two 3.5 to 5 gal plastic buckets / for 1 or 2 persons. Add 1 more bucket for each additional family member as needed.  \n Close fitting lids for each bucket and toilet seat that is designed to fit on a bucket  \n Keep toilet paper, soap bottled water, disposable gloves, hand sanitizer, towels or wipes, disposable diapers an","cbCaib3mr1WmISNj","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaib3mr1WmISNj","pdf",490123,"English","# When Sewers are Broken or Leaking, What Do You Do?\n## After a Disaster DO…\n## AFTER A DISASTER: DO NOT…\n## Hygiene is Critical to Preserving Health\n## Why do we need buckets in our emergency kits?\n## Getting Everything Together\n## The No-Mix Principle\n## Using the Twin-Bucket System","[{\"question\":\"What should you do immediately after a disaster when sewer lines may be broken?\",\"answer\":\"Do not flush a toilet until local officials give the OK. 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