[permaculture] reed beds
Christoph Redwitz
latuerlich at gmx.de
Thu Feb 7 10:22:56 EST 2008
Some research about it but not with greenhouse:
www.scu.edu.au/schools/esm/dds/index.php?action=download&mat_id=1655&site_id=26
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http://www.sustainablebuild.co.uk/ConstructionStone.html
You can search for: (subsurface) constructet wetlands or artificial
wetlands to. please let me know, if you find something interesting.
mIEKAL aND schrieb:
> Anyone have links to designs for reed beds, especially ones closed in
> greenhouses?
>
> ~mIEKAL
>
>
> On Feb 7, 2008, at 8:00 AM, Christoph Redwitz wrote:
>
>
>> It not yet a concret plan. It's more a dream: moving to a warmer
>> place.
>> Evapotranspiration is here in Germany no problem. The reed beds a
>> working very well. But i in hot climat, one says: reed beds are a good
>> option, because you can recycle your greywater in that way, and other
>> say, you can use reed beds but u wont get water back. But actually i
>> have these statements out of literatur. Thats why i am asking now
>> here :)
>>
>>
>> Lawrence F. London, Jr. schrieb:
>>
>>> Christoph Redwitz wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi!
>>>> Does anybody have some experience with read bed purification in dry
>>>> areas? I'v read about it, that it is not practical there, because
>>>> of the
>>>> high evapotranspiration loss of water. But on the other hand i
>>>> heard of
>>>> many people that they use it. Do you get water back from that
>>>> system?
>>>> And can you use the reed propperly?
>>>> Are there more effectiv plants to use on that kind of pourification?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Reedbed greywater purification systems are widely used in the UK.
>>> Is evapotranspiration a problem unique to using reeds in beds?
>>> If so maybe erecting some kind of greenhouse over the bed would
>>> reduce that water loss
>>> and infuse the system with clean condensed water from the inside
>>> surfaces of the greenhouse.
>>> Left partly open in hot weather for ventilation and closed in cold
>>> this structure could
>>> be left in place year round. Where are you thinking of using this
>>> system? Europe?
>>>
>>>
>>>
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