[ca-gw] Graywater ordinance roundtable

[Bennett, Dick]

There is still an open issue to some on the reuse of graywater and rainwater for indoor reuse.  Title 22 is not practical for graywater/rainwater treatment standards and I don't know of anyone at the state level that is working on proposing these treatment standards.  In the absence of any activity on this at the state level it appears that the options available are to either: (1)push for DWR to work on a state code, or (2) work with local health departments (at the county level in Calif. except for 4 cities with own health depts.) to develop and adopt ordinances. There are actually two health departments that are currently looking into this: San Francisco County and City of Berkeley.   

 

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From: ca-standard-bounces at graywater.org [mailto:ca-standard-bounces at graywater.org] On Behalf Of Steve Bilson
Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 10:39 AM
To: 'elizabeth dougherty'; ca-standard at graywater.org
Cc: eliz at whollyh2o.org
Subject: Re: [ca-gw] Graywater ordinance roundtable

 

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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From: ca-standard-bounces at graywater.org

[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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