Daily Acts, a Petaluma organization that helps residents reduce their carbon footprint, is holding a workshop on creating a laundry to landscape greywater system. And the best part? It's free to Petaluma and Cotati residents.
In this course you will learn how to:
· Complete a code-compliant laundry to landscape system at your house in a weekend.
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· Save money by diverting your washing machine water to irrigate your plants
· Get guidance, hands-on help, training, assistance
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Daily Acts will provide participants with everything neededand give them the confidence to apply basic plumbing and landscaping techniques to effectively, ecologically, and safely direct water from a washing machine to a yard.
Instructor Laura Allen is a founder of Greywater Action and has spent a decade exploring low-tech, urban ecological sanitation technologies like greywater.
Further details on the workshop:
Friday, July 15–-8am-5pm: All-day Greywater Course to be held in Petaluma. This will include powerpoint lectures, hands-on activities, model greywater system set up, and more!
Saturday, July 16 & Sunday, July 17––9am-3pm: Installation Days (Petaluma & Cotati residents install their own systems, expert installers on-hand to provide guidance, troubleshooting, and assist in managing volunteers).
Help Daily Acts meet their goal of installing 30 greywater systems in one weekend!! If you have friends residing in either Petaluma or Cotati that would be interested in installing their own greywater-fed oasis, please have them call 707.789.9664 or register online at www.dailyacts.org.
To sign up, email erin@dailyacts.org or call the number above.
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