Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond by Brad Lancaster. David Venhuizen - Waste Water Management Systems. Making reed beds for grey water recycling. Making reed beds for grey water recycling May 22, 2009, 2:32 pm Filed under: Doing, Learning, Planning, Recycling, Thinking | Tags: grey water recycling, Horizontal Flow Reed Bed, reed beds, reeds from seeds, vertical Flow Reed Bed One of the projects that really stuck in my head after reading my first book on permaculture was creating reed beds for recycling grey water (any waste water from the house except sewage from the toilet).
After a good deal of time spent researching and reading around the topic the time finally came to make it a reality. Luckily there is a builders depo at the end of my street who sell gravel and my friend Morgan was on hand to help me put it all together. For an average household you need 1m² of reed bed to recycle each persons grey water and you need four reeds per square metre. Ten reed plants were bought from Reeds from Seeds who can be found here – – The total costwas £27.60 most of which was the delivery cost to London from Wales. Little Homestead in the City - the Urban Homestead Journal. October 22, 2007 Q. Have you ever heard of filtering greywater through a DIY Backyard Wetland? I recently read a zine by The Guerilla Greywater Girls called A Guide To Water, and it has a bunch of DIY greywater things anyone can do.
One of the things that they have is a "Greywater Wetland Filter. " It has a surge tank, then a sand filter, then it goes into a tub filled with gravel that has wetland plants growing in it. A. OK back to your grey water question: I would recommend you visiting this site where I will think you'll find some very helpful information. We have an outdoor shower where the "greywater" seeps into the surrounding soil and waters the edible plants.
Like I said, we are working on being able to take our bath water and sink water from inside the house and build some sort of greywater pond that will filter the water -- but that's on hold at the moment. Jump to "Post a Comment" Share your thoughts and tell us what you're thinking... Greywater Action. Greywater Irrigation. HANDBOOK OF UTILIZATION OF AQUATIC PLANTS. A Review of World Literature by E.
C. S. Little Kerikeri, Bay of Islands New Zealand The designations employed and the presentation of material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. The copyright in this book is vested in the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS Rome, 1979© FAO The Fisheries Department of FAO has a special interest in the control and utilization of aquatic plants owing to the frequency with which such vegetation interferes or is thought to interfere with fish production in inland waters, especially in the tropics.
Grey Water (also spelled greywater, graywater, gray water) What is grey water?
Any washwater that has been used in the home, except water from toilets, is called grey water. Dish, shower, sink, and laundry water comprise 50-80% of residential "waste" water. This may be reused for other purposes, especially landscape irrigation. (This is the definition common in Europe and Australia. Greywater irrigation - grey waste treatment. The Center for Rainwater Harvesting providing information on collecting, purifying and using rainwater making use of local materials and a full spectrum of technologies. Table 2d is a summary of several different scientific studies that were done in several different areas of the world, on different kinds of roof materials.
Trying to decipher the information is difficult because the samples were taken at different times during the rainfall, at different locations in the rainwater collection system, and the units of measure in some of the reports, simply don’t look right. A good conclusion is that no matter what you make your roof out of, you will need to face the fact that you’re going to have chemical and biological contaminants to contend with – just like any other water you collect from nature. There are some startling results that might be concluded from this table. It appears that gravel and asphalt shingles are a good choice for roofing material. Indeed, there is a study by P. Roof Material selection Conclusion.