Our efforts at using gray water to water our veg has hot been that successful, the first year worked ok , but after that it stopped working. The main problem is the gray water has not been filtered so that it clogs up the drip watering feeds etc.
After some web research and book reading, we cam across a method using plastic pipes with drilled holes to distribute water. These are buried in the veg plots and should provide adequate irrigation.
so we purchased some 20mm plastic pipe and added the holes.
The pipe sections are 2m in length and have aprox. 20cm risers added so that they can be berried below the surface.
The water is derived by 16mm plastic irrigation pipes with a tap for each buried pipe. The main problem at the moment is getting all the taps balanced so that each of the berried pipes gets the same amount of water.
So far the system seems to be working but the real test will be through the summer.
will it work?
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