Water restrictions

[GrayStangGT]

The water police busted me today for watering on the wrong day. I actually just read the water restrictions wrong.

[Sean88gt]

Makes a lot more sense than running purified drinking water onto the dirt.

[centexchick]

I have never understood why we all don't utilize our grey water. There is nothing wrong with watering your trees/grass/flowerbeds/yard, etc. with this water. we did when I was a kid and it was great.

I live in the sticks and when they built my house they ran the washer into the septic on my house (and all my neighbors). Many of the people around me have had to have their tanks cleaned out. they have more people in their homes.....I wonder had their grey water not been going into their tanks.....would they have had an issue....

[347Mike]

So how do you do this? You hook your hose up to your washermachine hookup?

[mstng86]

We are on Stage 1 restrictions in Forney. What is everyone else on?

[01vnms4v]

I have the greenest yard on the block and on of the greenest in neighborhood. Fuck the water cops I want my damm grass to live.

And yes a $100 water bill sux but not going to let mine die. They have not and will not catch me watering.

Thank god for sprinker systems

[347Mike]

We are on Stage 1 restrictions in Forney. What is everyone else on?

Dunno. How do you find out? I guess I should know these things as a home owner..

[mstng86]

Dunno. How do you find out? I guess I should know these things as a home owner..

Your city website should have it somewhere.

[Grimpala]

If we planted native grasses and plants instead of bringing in things that look good they would thrive instead of having to be watered endlessly. I like a green yard, but I'm not going to spend needless resources on it. It's part of life grass turns brown in winter and summer.

I would be all for using grey water if I could, but it isn't feasable where I'm at. Now I have thought about collecting rainwater from my roof for use when it's dry out.

[Sean88gt]

If we planted native grasses and plants instead of bringing in things that look good they would thrive instead of having to be watered endlessly. I like a green yard, but I'm not going to spend needless resources on it. It's part of life grass turns brown in winter and summer.

I would be all for using grey water if I could, but it isn't feasable where I'm at. Now I have thought about collecting rainwater from my roof for use when it's dry out.

I'm with you. I see the amount of $, time, and resources wasted by some of my former neighbors and just don't get it. Of course, they hated me for fucking up their yard of the month vibe that they apparently lived for.

[347Mike]

So for houses in a developement and not out in the sticks, where do you hook your hose up to?

[Saleen781]

my mom has an aerobic septic system at her place in E TX, it's a 3 step system that when the waste water gets to the 3rd tank (after bleaching) a sump turns on and she has 3 sprinklers taht pop up and water the yard. it still has a smell to it but it's not bad at all. pretty cool set up but it costs almost $10k.

[red95gts]

my mom has an aerobic septic system at her place in E TX, it's a 3 step system that when the waste water gets to the 3rd tank (after bleaching) a sump turns on and she has 3 sprinklers taht pop up and water the yard. it still has a smell to it but it's not bad at all. pretty cool set up but it costs almost $10k.

That's what the house we're building in OKC has. Supposedly, the water is clean enough to drink, but I don't think I'll be testing that theory. I believe they set the sprinklers up to water in the middle of the night so no one is out in the yard when they run.

[Grimpala]

my mom has an aerobic septic system at her place in E TX, it's a 3 step system that when the waste water gets to the 3rd tank (after bleaching) a sump turns on and she has 3 sprinklers taht pop up and water the yard. it still has a smell to it but it's not bad at all. pretty cool set up but it costs almost $10k.

I planted a garden by my parents aerobic system. I had cucmbers the size of watermelon and corn 8' high.

[YALE]

You can't run grey water because they're afraid of extra phosphates getting into the ground water. You can generate some pretty crazy non-point runoff if a lot of people in a neighborhood do it. That's why they're so strict in the hill country if you live in a aquifer re-charge zone. The phosphates make your lawn green, but they will ruin a water source. Look at all the little neighborhood lakes that feed White Rock. They might as well be slurry ponds for mine tailings. They're fucking nasty and polluted.