[ca-gw] Meeting, Intent

[Oasis Design]

Dear Stakeholders-

I felt that the second meeting was very successful, positive, and 
showing a huge advance over where things stood at the start of the 
first stakeholders meeting.

Jim Rowland and Doug Henzel deserve commendation for the progress 
they've made in the draft standard, and in educating themselves and 
their colleagues on this complex issue, which is a subset of the much 
more complex issue of how to revamp our entire regulatory structure 
for a post-peak world.

(see why does greywater matter? 
http://graywater.org/home/75-why-are-people-so-passionate-about-greywater 
)

I hope someone will take it upon themselves to summarize the events 
in the meeting.

I am taking it upon myself to

1) collate everyone's suggested changes to the standards into one 
document, which I will circulate through this list ASAP.
2) survey stakeholders and summarize our input

I'm about halfway through the collation of the meeting input.

One thing that has come to me is the idea of starting with a 
statement of intent. I do this for most things I write.

This is so basic, and so new, that I've decided to send it out ahead 
of time for your comment.  Here it is:

Intent statement for new CA greywater standard


1601.0 Gray Water Systems - General.

Intent
The intent of this section is to:

    1. conserve water by facilitating greater reuse of laundry, 
shower, sink for irrigation in California, as mandated in Article 7 
of the California Constitution and elsewhere.
    2. reduce contamination of groundwater and reduce the health 
threat from marginal septic and sewer systems by diverting graywater, 
which has far fewer pathogens, to effective decentralized treatment 
higher in the soil profile.
    3. reduce the economic and ecological cost of treatment by 
allowing inherently less costly management through simple, 
decentralized treatement.
    4. Reduce the vulnerability of critical infrastructure to natural 
disaster, terrorist attack, resource shortage, or ordinary failure by 
providing an alternate means of treatment and reducing the flow of 
heavily pathogen-laden sewage.
    5. reduce the number of unpermitted homeowner-installed systems by 
making legal compliance easily obtainable
    6. reduce the barriers to installation of simple greywater systems 
by liscenced professionals by making legal compliance easily 
obtainable.
    7. provide credible guidance for avoiding the creation of 
potentially unhealthful conditions

A clear statement of intent provides a lens through which every other 
section of the code can be interpreted and discrepancies or unclear 
interpretations resolved, as well as providing guidance for the use 
of alternative materials and methods...

Please send your comments here on this statement of intent...

http://www.graywater.org/graywater-policy/new-standard/88-intent-statement-for-new-ca-greywater-standard

Thanks,

Art

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Art Ludwig
Oasis Design
Ecological Design publishing & consulting
Santa Barbara, CA
Fax: 805 967-3229  Phone: 967-9956
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