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Builder's Greywater Guide: Installation, Standards, and Science for Builders, Landscapers, Regulators, Policymakers, Researchers, and Homeowners- ... to the book "Create an Oasis with Greywater"
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Product Description The Builder's Greywater Guide is of interest to anyone getting apermit for a greywater system, installing large greywater systems,installing a greywater system as a part of new construction orremodeling, making a greywater system for others, working on theregulation of greywater, or with an academic interest in greywater. The Builder's Greywater Guide includes info for architects, landscape architects, and plumbers. Topics include: Special reasons for builders to install or not install a greywater system, flow chart for choosing a system, suggestions for dealing with inspectors, legal requirements checklist, detailed review of system options with respect to new laws, latest construction details and design tips, maintenance suggestions, equations for estimating irrigation demand, and the complete text of new US greywater law with annotations and suggested improvements. Note: The book Create an Oasis with Greywater is required in order to most effectively use the "Builder's Greywater Guide". Review "Most of the useful information that exists on greywater is in Oasis' books." --Ted Adams, plumber and greywater consultant to the State of California From the Author The 2015 revision includes revisions to most of the book, four pages of new info and important updates to greywater codes. From the Inside Flap The Builder's Greywater Guide includes: greywater info for architects, landscape architects, and plumbers how to work with building codes to install greywater systems in new construction or remodeling new construction details and tips that will help builders successfully include greywater systems in their projects, even if they have little prior greywater experience integration of greywater systems with rainwater larger volume greywater systems legal compliance strategies ammunition and strategies for presenting your case to building officials, including information on the treatment effectiveness of greywater systems how to inspect greywater systems strategies for activists how to approach regulation of greywater systems in your district how to introduce legislation to improve greywater regulation how to make a successful business doing greywater system installation opportunities for greywater manufacturers description of the research that is most needed From the Back Cover If your project is going to involve permits, inspections, or building a system for someone else, or if you are a regulator, policymaker, or researcher, you will want the Builder's Greywater Guide. About the Author Art Ludwig's day job has been ecological system design for 35years. He is the author of Create an Oasis with Greywater and other ecological design how-to books and articles. He lives with his wife and two children in a cabin surrounded by fruit trees in the mountains above Santa Barbara, California. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Choosing a System ...the question is, "what greywater system can best match greywater sources to the irrigation demand?' The flow chart (Figure 1, page 4) will yield a good answer in most situations. Realize that it is all but impossible to come up with a greywater system which is simultaneously inexpensive, ecological, easy to use, legal and efficient. However, by sacrificing some of these parameters, the others can be satisfied. There are a large number of possible combinations of benefits and drawbacks, one or more of which will likely be a good fit for a particular situation... Hard plumbing to mini-leachfields: For ideal situations with continuous downhill slope from the points of greywater generation to the points of irrigation need, this design promises inexpensive, reliable, efficient legal subsurface distribution WITHOUT FILTER CLEANING. It is critical that hard-plumbed lines have proper slope (at least 1/4" per foot)...
