I am looking for any and all information regarding a gray water system. This info is for a house already built, and for a house in the planning stages. Any good books? Anyone with experience? Thanks in advance. Sissy

-- Sissy Sylvester-Barth (jerreleene@hotmail.com), June 26, 2001

Answers

I don't know of any books on this subject, but suspect there may be one or more. If you go down to Older Messages (by category) and go to the Sewage/Waste Disposal category there are some threads there on gray water.

-- Ken S. in WC TN (scharabo@aol.com), June 26, 2001.

Sure!  The Humanure Handbook is the only book that springs to mind, and its not really about grey water except insofar as it tells you how to eliminate BLACK water.

Here are some websites:

The Watson Wick System
Lagoons
Grey water Guidelines
Living Machines
Greywater Marsh
Greywater Recycling DIY Manual
Greywater Recycling
Greywater Central
Greywater Mistakes and Misinformation

Hope that helps.
 

-- Sojourner (notime4@summer.spam), June 26, 2001.

Hi,

Try the National Small Flows Clearinghouse at West Virgina Univ ( http://www.nesc.wvu.edu/nsfc/nsfc_homepage.html ).

Gray water, black water, and any other 'kinds' of water. They have information.

j

-- j (jw_hsv@yahoo.com), June 26, 2001.

I know there is at least one good book on it because I saw it at our solar store once, but the name of it slips my mind....

-- marcee king (thathope@mwt.net), June 29, 2001.

Sissy: You might save alot of time and effort if you contact your local building inspection department. Many local governments are not as far-thinking as we are and have put up so many barriers to alternative waste disposal systems that it just isn't worth the hassle. If you're lucky, your locality will not yet have followed the path to "it's our way or the highway"!

-- john james (jjames@n-jcenter.com), June 29, 2001.

I looked for info on graywater recycling(gray spelling as to the color of the water is more appropriate than grey as the surname)for about 1yr. Everybody talks about blackwater or a municipal system/golf course recovery system. None of these water conservative types have addressed domestic recovery. If totaled, I'm sure there is a lot more water wasted in septic systems than those big systems. I'm designing my own,I'm running sink water to the animal pens, those drains add ammonia to the water to tie up heavy metals from soaps. Then it flows thru aluminum screens that will pull phosphorous and mangnesium salts. Then alog 40 ft of cocrete culvert filled with washed sand and planted with creep, willows, bullrush and cat-tails. Then to the settlement pond for cleaning by aeration(solar air pump) and water lillies and hyacinth, which I will have to protect in winter. Then the water should be fit for bass and birds. At least thats my master plan which I hope to get to as soon as my daughter is married, since she wants to get married at the house, my priorities have been altered for me. good luck-Ray

-- RAYMOND (RORLGRAY @GRAYTV.COM), June 29, 2001.

Thank's for all those links Sojourner!

-- Thumper (slrldr@aol.com), July 03, 2001.