How To Use Graywater

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May/June 2001
By Carol Steinfeld  
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In a small atrium hallway at the Wellfleet Audubon Sanctuary in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, a twenty-foot-long planter bed brims with a dense riot of tropical greenery. This planter manages all graywater from the restroom sinks and the employee kitchen. Any overflow drains to an outdoor sand filter planted as a garden to attract butterflies.

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More and more graywater-use options and installations will emerge as economy meets ecology over issues of wastewater pollution and water supply. “In the near future, a building’s landscape will also be part of its wastewater treatment system,” Del Porto predicts. “Water is getting too expensive to throw away, and wastewater is becoming even more of a water pollution problem. Increasingly, it will be strategically used up on site.”

Resources

Aquatic Eco-Systems
Apopka, FL
(407) 886-3939

Center for Ecological Pollution Prevention
Concord, MA
(978) 318-7033
Books and workshops about graywater systems

Earthship Biotecture
Taos, NM
(505) 751-0462

Jade Mountain
Boulder, CO
(800) 442-1972

Nutricycle Systems
Jefferson, MD
(301) 371-9172

Oasis Design
Santa Barbara, CA
(805) 967-9956

Sustainable Strategies
Concord, MA
(978) 369-9440

Symbiosystem
Round River Alternatives
Finland, MN
(877) 391-0888

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