LA Times Reporter: DIY Graywater System Installed

Susan Carpenter of the Los Angeles Times wrote this story about installing her own graywater system in two days for $312. There's a video along with the story, and some helpful hints about how to get started, for example:

The daunting technological legalese of the plumbing code sent me scouring the Internet for other options, which I found through the Santa Barbara firm Oasis Design and a group called the Greywater Guerrillas in Oakland. Pretty much everything I had ever wanted to know about gray water -- and then some -- was available at www.oasisdesign.net, where I spent the better part of an afternoon learning the basics and purchasing two books.

The photocopied-and-stapled "Builder's Greywater Guide" reiterated many of the same technical and legal issues that had been outlined on the Oasis site, and the glossy and perfect-bound "Create an Oasis With Greywater" gave me more detailed information on systems to consider.

Read more about the Greywater Guerrillas.

"I was never more excited to do laundry, and it wasn't because my son and I were running out of clean underwear. " -- Susan Carpenter