Here is our greywater packet that we hand out at all greywater workshops and presentations we go to. This gives you a very well-rounded introduction to what greywater is and other details.

Visit our Greywater Gallery as well for visuals on what a greywater system could look like and what it could produce for you!

Local Resources

San Luis Obispo county homeowner's guide to graywater use in the garden. Downloadable for free at http://www.slogreenbuild.org/#!at-guides/cile

Branch Drain System

This is a food forest full of edible plants grown on graywater. Eat and enjoy without having to pay for water or spend time irrigating.

Branch Drain Piping Layout

Greywater Food Forest

Laundry to Landscape System

Diagram from Creating an Oasis with Greywater by Art Ludwig

Laundry to Landscape System

3-way valve diverting water to the landscape or to the sewer/septic.
A clear sign needs to be posted to let users know which way water is heading.

*Do not send bleach to your garden, only to the sewer/septic side.

Air Vent

One Way Valve

Mulch Basin

Mulch Basins

One inch flexible tubing is used to move graywater into the garden. An outlet is placed near the root zones of each plant to be watered.

Mulch Basins

Each outlet basin is backfilled with mulch as a filter media for the graywater to infiltrate around the root zone.

Shower Greywater

We can replumb most fixtures to gravity flow into a branch drain system for your garden!