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January 5, 2022

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Miscellaneous Supplies for Rainwater Harvesting
January 4, 2022

Oasis® biocompatible laundry & dishwashing detergent Oasis Biocompatible Super-Concentrated Laundry Liquid Oasis Biocompatible All Purpose Cleaner/Dishwash TucsonFood Conspiracy Co-opwww.foodconspiracy.org Water Wise Supply/Clean Water Components greywater parts (including hard-to-find Laundry to Landscape—L2L—parts) Water Wise…

Porous Paving

Low-cost porous paving materials and installation such as porous aggregate and recycled concrete sidewalk chunks or bricks are covered in Porous Paving by Bruce K. Ferguson and Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands, Volume 2,…

Infiltration Chambers & Infiltration Trench Pipe

Infiltration chambers (aka, “leaching chambers” or “subsurface outlet chambers”) I far prefer the use of these bottomless, louver-sided plastic chambers over the use of perforated pipe in French drain applications. The larger-capacity chambers…

Mulch

p>Mulch can be free/homemade (see section-headers below in italics) or purchased from landscape material suppliers. Make sure it contains organic matter only—no mixed-in soil. Also, if you can purchase what they call “overs,”…

Vegetation

The bulk, if not all, materials for creating most water-harvesting earthworks are already on-site and free. The soil is the main one. Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands, Volume 2, covers the rest. If you…

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