Farms: Creating a Home Graywater System
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Peak Moment 141: (same as 3/4/09 with added diagrams) Trathen Heckman takes us on a step-by-step tour of how to make a safe, ecological and legal suburban home graywater system. Follow the water as it drains from the bathroom tub (and sink and laundry) through a unique valve leading into the backyard garden. It flows into an optional wetland and underground pond for filtering. The water is then piped below ground to several destinations in the yard, where it will supply water for plants growing above it. Trathen discusses the process with local government agencies, the system design and construction (with pictures), costs, resource books, and why to undertake a graywater system in the first place. http://www.dailyacts.org
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good system. Im not one of the environmental wackos but I do believe in saving money. I would not have bothered with getting it permitted though. Its not any of the government's business if I recycle water.
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Are the constructions plans available for this project somewhere on the web? Thanks.
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I love this video so much. This is an excellent resource. I really appreciate the level of detail. Very inspiring and a pleasure to watch!
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I know this is pretty old, but I live in a place that still does not allow grey water systems. Does anyone know where I can find permitted plans to help expedite policy change?
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May I know how it is doing now?
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It is crazy how much water a household uses everyday. But let's not forget that even greywater can be nasty stuff. I think it should be filtered befor it exits the house. There are a few manufacturers in Europe making some affordable systems, sold here in North America. A system like the one on this video, would never be approved in Canada. I belive that every one should try to live off grid. We might all realize how much water and power we just waist.
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That's pretty awesome! I'd love to install a greywater system in my home too, but I don't have the time or plumbing experience to build my own or make sure everything is leak proof. I saw this greywater recycling system that produces the highest quality water:
http://greywaterrecyclingsystems.com/
With the GWRS system I don't have to worry about my pets accidentally drinking toilet water or my sensitive plants dying from leftover detergent in other greywater systems. -
Only treated Reclaimed Water is safe and legal to use in landscape irrigation.
Over a hundred years of human suffering, painstaking research and education to provide the safe and healthy waste water treatment systems available today all just completely thrown out the window in 28mins!
Gray water must be treated to be deemed truly "safe" for release into the community.
Here is just a short list of deadly diseases spread by untreated "gray water"
Cholera
Typhoid
Hepatitis
Polio
SARS
Polyomavirus
Botulism
Echinococcosis
Ascariasis
Leptospirosis -
Drought the way it is in California you have to do this
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Grow medicine.... che che che....
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Really cool. I like how it's gravity powered and relatively simple.
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Dude needs to become a public official so he can fix those anti GREEN laws. New construction should have mandatory conservation solutions in the CODES.
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AN EXCELLENT USE OF COMMUNITY ENERGY, MIND, SOUL & SPIRIT IN A WORLD
OFTEN DEVOID OF SUCH.... -
Huh. His swamp area sounds like a filter in an aquarium. Awesome!
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Curious if there is any surface watering or if everything is underground?
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a much cheeper option is to use something like this g-flow unit http://totalwatersupplies.com.au/w/?product=g-flow it just redirects the water onto the garden.
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this is the guy id want with me in the apocalypse hah! could learn a lot
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awesome!
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Awesome young man.
Thanks!