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SLIDE 31: Filtration “Systems”
Here’s a graphic by greywater guru, Art Ludwig, which shows a side view of the previous slide. The outlet chamber shown here under mulch can be made of an upside down 5-gal plant bucket or a sturdier material such as the lavender-colored valve boxes shown in the previous slide. Either way, small holes are drilled in the side(s) of the circular “boxes” such that greywater can escape into the mulch (where it is filtered and broken down by naturally existing bacteria). Finally, the wet resource seeps into the root zones of neighboring plant material. The holes should be small enough so that no animals can get into the chamber. The outlet of the pipe should be high enough to prevent mice and other small rodents from getting into the pipe (in the unlikely event they squeeze through a hole or burrow under the bucket. For more info about greywater, please see my book “Harvest the Rain,” our greywater page (http://permadesign.com/portfolios/greywater_recycling), or Art Ludwig’s books and website, http://www.oasisdesign.net
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