Are you sure you want to give out those email addresses LOL they might be inundated with requests for locations for soft toilet seats.

For me personally, I would never put a low flow toilet on a old cast iron system. I helped install and build them when I was younger and I know how rough those old style pipes are inside.

I also know what kind of mess it creates if you plug one of those pipes and have it back flow. I can think of other ways to conserve water usage if you are living in a home with 50 year old cast iron pipes.

Thanks for doing the research. I’m serious about passing the information to the county because they have suspended the program for those reasons provided.

It is based on the Recent article link above and the suspension of the program by the county because of the possible clogging of the sewer lines and the solids being left in the pipe and causing plugs and destruction of the pipes.

Remember we aren’t talking about current cast iron piping, we are talking about pre 1960 pipes that have been in use for almost 50 years. Not modern day cast iron piping.

The article is the basis. So maybe your authorities should get in touch with the county. They are the ones that suspended the program.

Dave, I forwarded you article on low flow toilets and cast iron pipes to the two leading people in water conservation and toilet testing, Bill Gaulley (bill@veritec.org) and John Koeller (koeller@earthlink.net. Bassically they said there is no data to support the claim that you should not install a “low flow toilet” in a home with cast iron piping. What data do you have to support that from a third party testing agency?

Now if the issue was pipe slope, I think there would be more credibility to that.