Have or want a graywater system? Researchers looking for home test sites

Saw this on a couple of email lists I'm on:


Graywater Homes Needed as Test Sites for WERF Research

The Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF) and its project partners are collaborating on a long-term study to investigate the
potential impacts to plants, soils, and human health from household graywater used in landscape irrigation. Phase 1 of the project, which is now complete, developed a literature review and synthesis report on the current state of the knowledge on graywater reuse for landscape irrigation at the household level. Phase 2, which is just getting underway, will conduct experimental studies of households using graywater for landscape irrigation.

The research team needs your help in locating homeowners who may be interested in participating in this research.

The research team, led by Drs. Larry Roesner and Sybil Sharvelle, is looking for households with existing graywater systems that have been in place for at least five years, particularly in Florida, Arizona, or New Mexico. The team is open to considering participants from other states as well. The team also needs households that will volunteer to install new graywater irrigation systems in the next year, particularly in Arizona, New Mexico, and California.

If you know of homeowners who may be interested in participating, please contact (or have the homeowner contact) Sybil Sharvelle at 970-491-6081 or sybil.sharvelle at colostate.edu Dr. Sharvelle has more information on becoming a household test site.

Run the piping from the sinks and shower into a 200 gallon containment tank, then run through a reverse osmosis filter (run by solar, of course) into both a water-plant and goldfish pond and a 100 gallon containment tank for the back garden irrigation. All it would cost me after the set-up would be filter maintenance. And even then, in a pinch, I could run the filtering through another hydroponics pond if filters got too expensive. Of course, this only works when you're living in a house with a yard; in an apartment, I don't know, unless you want to figure out a "shower/laundry recirculating" system through some sort of filtering that will allow that greywater to be re-used in those facilities and still be fairly clean.

Sinks should have cleaner water than a greywater recirculating system would give you.

Greywater reuse systems should save me immense amounts of the household water costs - once I get one put in. Too bad we rent - and probably always will.

Anyone know the winning lotto tickets for Saturday's Superlotto draw?

Haele

Trying to buy a house myself. Everything in my price range is either a long drive (too much time, waste of gas, expensive gas) or needs a lot of work.

In your scheme it should go -> fish -> plants -> RO I should think. Anyway, most of it is geared toward irrigation, reinfiltration to groundwater, or filling toilet tanks.

This is a fun read from NY Times last year.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/31/garden/31greywater.html