Filtering gray water from washer
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Check with your local municipality first, in many areas it is not legal due to health concerns and groundwater contamination.
Personally I think it is a great idea and there should be a way to license responsible homeowners or something? Where I live water is more precious than gold, I would love to irrigate my property with my wash water.
might want to check with the city first
Take a look at the interesting articles on Mother Earth News (https://www.motherearthnews.com/green-homes/home-design/greywater-zm0z11zphe)
The simplest type of greywater use is to collect water in a dishpan as you handwash dishes, and then toss it over your flowerbeds or fruit trees. This is a wonderfully simple, inexpensive way to tap into greywater, but with just a little more effort and expense, you can capture much more water.
One of the easiest and most popular greywater systems is a landscape-direct system that diverts greywater from your washing machine and routes it to mulch basins around trees or bushes. This “laundry-to-landscape” system captures greywater from the drain hose of the washing machine and sends it out to your plants through 1-inch tubing, without the need to alter existing plumbing. You can expect to harvest 10 to 25 gallons of water per load for a horizontal-axis machine, or about 40 gallons per load for a vertical axis machine.
According to Art Ludwig, author of Create an Oasis With Greywater, the laundry-to-landscape system is the “simplest, least expensive, lowest effort way to get the most greywater out onto the landscape.” The washing machine’s internal pump pushes the water outside through the tubing, so these systems can work without any additional pumps on flat or downward-sloping sites.