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  • From: mIEKAL aND <dtv@mwt.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] reed beds
  • Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 08:27:37 -0600

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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