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["Bill Russell" <shaman@pennswoods.net>]

>From reading the go around on using gray water, a couple of questions came
to mind:

Has anyone heard warnings against using low-phosphate gray water in the
vegetable garden?

How high can the discharge pump of a typical clothes washer lift the gray
water? Since our clothes washer is in the basement and about 5 feet below
ground level, I was wondering if I could simply reroute the discharge to the
garden.

Bill, Z5


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ginda Fisher" <ginda@concentric.net>
To: <nafex@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 10:21 PM
Subject: Re: [nafex] drought


> 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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