Simple Greywater System Design

With simple systems you are not able to send greywater into an existing drip irrigation system but must shape your landscape to allow water to infiltrate into the soil.

Simple greywater system design.

Perhaps the simplest cheapest most reliable best performing greywater system is the branched drain system emptying to mulch pits or leach fields created by greywater master designer art ludwig. That s exactly how many architects are starting to design houses and public buildings but if you don t live a housing development that features built in greywater systems you can make a few minor. Actually greywater systems can be incredibly simple. A simple laundry to landscape system the simplest type of greywater use is to collect water in a dishpan as you handwash dishes and then toss it over your flowerbeds or fruit trees.

Cheap made from readily available materials and effective. In fact greywater action suggests keeping greywater systems as simple as possible. A row of privacy bushes or a small orchard is typically the best reuse of greywater a fruit tree can easily uptake 15 plus gallons per day and the pipes do not need to be pressurized. We also wanted to use the outputs to irrigate a grove of important fruit trees as water is very precious here especially in a dry year.

Many of these systems are low cost reasonably easy to use and can get a regular supply of water to your garden right when it needs it. Without altering household plumbing one bit this gravity based system redirects water from the washing machine into a basic yard irrigation system. The beauty of our greywater disposal system is that you can very easily convert it to a greywater recycling system later. We recommend simple low tech systems that use gravity when ever possible instead of pumps.

Take the laundry to landscape system for example. A simple greywater diversion system will suit most people for watering the garden. A greywater system is used to take water that has already been used from places like your laundry shower and sink and divert it to use in another purpose like watering gardens or landscaping instead of flushing it down into the sewer. Greywater diversion systems divert greywater to the garden without treating it.

Our criteria for building the greywater system for the tinyhouse was pretty simple. It is a system that uses a siphon method to collect and distribute greywater before it goes down the drain into a sewer or septic system. In this system double elbow pipe fittings are used to spread the flow of greywater to different areas of the garden.