[ca-gw] Graywater ordinance roundtable

[Steve Bilson]

BAD IDEA.  The state greywater code does not need to be adopted by anybody
to be effective anywhere in the state.  It's just like a speed limit on a
freeway; the local authority does not need to adopt that speed limit.

Insinuating to anyone that they need to adopt the state code is to deny the
state its lawful place in water conservation.

The point of the state code process to give the entire state a code.  We did
that.

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[mailto:ca-standard-bounces at graywater.org] On Behalf Of elizabeth dougherty
Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 9:39 AM
To: ca-standard at graywater.org
Cc: eliz at whollyh2o.org
Subject: [ca-gw] Graywater ordinance roundtable

I think I'll to put together a 2 hour roundtable discussion, "Considerations
for Adapting the CA Graywater Code into a Locally Appropriate Ordinance:
Uniform Plumbing Code, Chapter 16, Part A" be.  It'll in the Bay Area in
mid-January.  

My thought is to have someone from a water agency/provider, a
building/plumbing inspector, county/city sustainability personnel, Water
Quality expert (or dept. of public health), graywater design/iinstaller
professional, and perhaps someone from HCD or DWR all give a 10-12 minute
schpeel about their thoughts/considerations/concerns related to graywater
code implementation for an hour.  Second hour is audience questions and
general discussion among discussants and audience of concerns, issues, etc.
It will be geared toward county and city, water agency etc personnel related
to contributing to creating a local ordinance. Probably wouldn't hurt to
invite the public as well.

It will be useful to get people together and hash through some of the
information and concerns in a constructive, informative way as we work
through the current stage of "local implementation".  I'll send  a more
formal invite out a few weeks ahead.
 
Feel free to contact me with suggestions of "not to miss" discussion
topics/points or speaker suggestions.

Elizabeth 

³For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining, is to let it
rain.² 
HW Longfellow
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elizabeth dougherty, phd
director, whollyh2o
sf bay area, ca
          
whollyh2o:                www.whollyh2o.org
norcal arcsa:            www.wiserearth.org/group/arcsanorcal
home page:              www.elizd.com


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