Despite my love of sailing (noted in below post) ; ) I spent the weekend landlocked in beautiful south-central Virginia discussing greywater with our contractor. (That is, when I wasn’t getting fat on all the yummy Amish food we bought: dinner rolls, goat cheese, pickled beets, zucchini relish and oatmeal cookies. Yum.)
The land perks, but because of the soil conditions I am trying to best approach the greywater as if it didn’t because of concerns for the stream (way below) the site.
It looks like we *are* going to be able to dig deep enough for rainwater cisterns (a separate topic) but I was having trouble explaining my idea for what I want to do with greywater and finding the "proof" of what other states/counties have done to back me up. (I am hoping to completely avoid a traditional septic field as that does not have peak performance for greywater- we will be using a composting toilet so the blackwater is separate, and using gravity to irrigate downhill where the land plateaus before continuing downhill to a creek...)
I keep a list of greywater manuals, etc. on http://www.greenmodernkits.com/greywater.htm
But what I found tonight is more food for thought:
http://www.enviroalternatives.com/toiletgraywater.html
Does anyone have any other information/resources to add? Anyone else building/using greywater treatment/fields?
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