Here is a video of a Greywater Laundry to Landscape installation in Benicia last Saturday. Thank you Constance.
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| Natalie and Christina in garage classroom introducing Greywater |
Natalie and Christina are members of Greywater Action and were gracious enough to provide their expertise to the 20+ participants of the event. Their fee was covered by the Benicia Sustainable Backyard project, an arm of Benicia Community Gardens making this a free workshop to attendees.
A little rain the night before. This was one of those "I wish I had brought my other shoes" mornings.
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| Digging mulch basins for Avocado and Pear trees |
You might recognize this 'garden in the making' from the previous post: "How did we get to this" on 4/12/2015
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| This is how it looked at lunch |
Discerning a path for the Blu Lock high density pipe. The walls resist collapse under foot traffic more than Black Poly Vinyl
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| Pipe is 'serpentined' down the slope to slow the flow |
There has been a surge in interest regarding greywater this year. One of the participants travelled from San Jose!
Christina explains how to drill through stucco. Fortunately we didn't have to because we could run the 1" sch.40 PVC pipe through the crawl space under the house and out through an air vent. |
| Testing. Water flowing evenly throughout the whole system. |
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| After the workshop. Elena and Nikita planting Tomatoes |
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| 5pm. Greywater installed and some planting completed. |
On another celebratory note
A Permaculturist received the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in Cob!
Happy Water recycling!
David
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