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[Sam Franc <franc@oregonfast.net>]

There are a number of small "sump Pumps" available.
I have a couple I keep on hand for emergencies.
Simas makes a good line of them.
Can get them for a gallon or less (adjusable) on up to several gals per
min.
I would suggest the 5 gal per minute one for the laudry tub.
You could use an ordinary garden hose or a special set up for a drip
system.
Use a filter if you use a drip system.
At the time of the big drought in CA I used lots of laundry water on my
garden.
Got 50 gals or more per day that way.
That would have ordinarily gone down the drain.
Sam
Ginda Fisher wrote:

>  How bad is typical laundry detergent?  What should I watch out for?
> I've been thinking of getting a small sump-pump to move the rinse
> water
> from the laundry up to the back yard.  (Hauling it by bucket involves
> carrying it through too many rooms where a spill would be troublesome,
>
> but a hose up and out the window looks do-able.)
>
>
> On Sunday, March 3, 2002, at 10:09 PM, Doreen Howard wrote:
>
> > Ginda,
> > Even if you have water restrictions due to drought this summer, you
> can
> > water a new currant bush or two with gray water--leftover water from
> the
> > house.  The dog or cat's stale water dish (instead of dumping it),
> > dishwashing water, bath water, even washing machine water, if you
> don't
> > use
> > phosphate-loaded soaps.  I grew up in arid So. Calif. where we
> watched
> > our
> > water consumption all the time.  I remember how my Dad rigged the
> hose
> > from
> > the washing machine to pour into his vegetable garden.  And we used
> to
> > haul
> > dish water out to the lemon and banana trees all the time.
> > Doreen Howard,
> > Wisconsin, Zone 4b, where winter finally arrived--2 feet of snow
> fell
> > in the
> > last two days.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Ginda Fisher" <ginda@concentric.net>
> > To: "NAFEX" <nafex@yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 8:14 PM
> > Subject: [nafex] drought
> >
> >
> >> I was planning on putting in several shrubs this spring (including
> a
> >> couple of currants, so this isn't entirely off-topic) but we've had
> an
> >> unusually warm and dry winter, and I'm worried we'll have a drought
>
> >> this
> >> summer.  I can probably water anyway (my town rarely has tight
> water
> >> restrictions - every-other day is about as bad as I've seen it) but
> I
> >> wonder if I ought to just wait a year.
> >>
> >> In some ways, how much it rains during the spring and summer may be
>
> >> more
> >> important to success than how wet the winter was, but if it's
> generally
> >> dry, maybe more water would be needed.  And then, even if we don't
> hve
> >> real watering restrictions, I don't want to be wasteful in a dry
> year.
> >>
> >> Any thoughts?
> >>
> >> Ginda FIsher
> >> eastern Mass, zone 6
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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