Monterey Greywater Group/Guild

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The first step is to build the plumbing back to the original waste line. This helps us to orient the diverter.

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Tightening the adapters from 1 inch brass to 1 inch pvc.

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Tightening the other side. The grey fitting is a 1 inch barbed fitting to recieve the waste line from the washer. Some lines are different so be prepared to do what it takes to get a secure connection.

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A good clean pvc connection, with no burrs or odd edges for greywater to hang up in.

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The middle port is the input with waste water from the washer, secured with the hose clamp.

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The right hand side turns down to the original drain waste standpipe. The slanted black line is the washer fill line.

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Now we make the cut to let the greywater line go outside the house. This is a place to be very smart, and very careful, as washer closet walls are full of odd plumbing, and heavy duty 220 electric lines.

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This was a close one. We only had 3/4 of an inch of clearance to allow for a 1 inch pipe with a 1 1/4 diameter. I like to include a board in back, that can be attached firmly to a stud. This allows you to attach your valve anywhere on the board.

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Outside coming in. The pilot hole shows you exactly where.

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The greywater line coming out. It can be cut to meet the outside layout.

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Here we go into the dirt. The greywater line will travel behind the existing drain waste plumbing

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More good strong connections. The long line travels down the building and the 90 takes it when it hits the dirt.

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The first piece in our conversion, to the more environmentally friendly, HDPE irrigation line.

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In the dirt.

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The first piece converts from PVC to HDPE or just PE pipe. Then we install a 3/4 inch hose thread connection. This makes it easy to hook up a garden hose, to test a new system, and blast out a clogged system. Be sure you have a backflow device, on your hose, anytime you connect a potable water system to a greywater system.

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Slipping our irrigation line under the sidewalk.

 

" Hardscaping is the natural enemy of greywater."   Laura Allen Greywater Action.

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Covering our line and reinstalling the walkway stones just right

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This is where we make our turn towards the recieving landscape.

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This Tee is the begining of our first split to seperate irrigation zones.

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But before we install our zone control valve, we install the hard to see, reducing Tee, to irrigate the fruit tree.

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Installing the 1 inch zone control valve.

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Digging out a 1 foot deep mulch basin, just beyond the dripline of the tree.

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Here we cut across the ground cover to zone two.

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And it just folded back in very nicely.

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Last but not least, installing the antisiphon device at the high point by the washer. This case study did not povide much information on the very important mulch basins.

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