Anybody can do it, with materials from the hardware store or Home Depot.
Marsha Describes Gray-Water
Cal Shows How the Water Gets Into the pipe that carries the
water to the garden.
Here the pipe goes from the house to the tank.
The gray-water line from the house,
goes into this container, which we are using as a tank. The sump pump in the
tank, pumps the water to the land, when the tank is full, then turns itself
off. This is a standard sump pump. The container came from Alco, and is sold
as a storage container, I suppose. I think it was maybe $18 and
holds, maybe 50 gallons of gray-water.
The line from the gray-water pump goes uphill to the
newly-transplanted trees. The emitter is standard. What is not standard is
the insertion of the emitter into the 1" poly line. Drill a hole for the
emitter and soften the poly pipe with hot water. The 1" poly line is not
designed to to this. But it works.
Tap into the 1" line with a T; then put a standard emitter on
the end of each 1/4" line, created by the T. Use a 1/4" line to take the water
where you want. On some, I use a valve to control the amount of water.
These valves for 1/4" line are available from plumbingsupply.com and elsewhere.
More taps into the 1" poly-tube with a T to put the water
two places. We are using an Azden wireless transmitter. The sound
cut-out, intermittently, I think, is the microphone plug into the
transmitter, which I have in my pocket. We will us Velcro to hold the
plug in one place on the next videos.
In the garden, the 1-inch poly pipe
has 1/8" holes to emit water; no emitters are in use. The pressure downhill from
the pump is low, because the valve is open just a little, just enough to flow
downhill.