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Mass Audobon, Wellfleet Cape Cod |
and is equipped with composting toilets and greywater planterbeds that thrive in the light from the sky-lights and large windows in the greenhouse like corridor. |
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Little Compton Rhode Island
Small outdoor planterbed serving Little Compton's library in Little Compton Rhode Island. 2 sinks and a janitorial sink delivers the water for a 3 x 8 ft planter bed.Prefilter for the handwash water used for irrigation in a small bed outside.
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Wampanoag Tribes Bld, Martha's Vineyard, greywater is cleaned and the plants are fed and watered in one process. |
There is actually just barely enough water to go around all the planter beds. |
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Private Residences, New England This lean-to greehouse in New Hampshire is actively cooled during the day and in the night the heat under the floor rises up and prevents freezing during the dark and over-cast |
Since soil beds can operate odorlessly, they can be sited in both natural light or under grow lights. They can be placed in a south-facing window, they can be sunk into the floor as was done in a model home in Cambridge, Mass. |
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Private Residence, Cambridge, MA This planterbed was originally built to demonstrate greywater use in a masonary soilbed on the floor of a basement living room. |
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Lewis Mill, Md. Hanson Bros. |
These systems should be planned as part of the lanscaping of the site. Attention needs to be given to the strata underneith so that water can drain away after infiltration. |
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Hanson Bros. Cont.
This greywater trench is set up for dosing/flooding with around 1-2" of greywater per cycle. Can be utilized both as gravity and pump operated systems.Showing a flower bed installation with trenches covered with flagstones that doubles as walk ways. See their site http://www.nutricyclesystems.com/
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Peggy's Cove in Nova
Scotia, Canada |
Out-door soil beds can be used as property dividers (for a hedge); as landscape-enhancing planters at the entrances to commercial buildings. With the latest lighting technology, vegetables can even be grown in completely dark rooms or basements |
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Leslie Science Center, Ann Arbor, MI
Administered by the City's Department of Parks & Recreation. Also equipped with two composting toilet systems largely used by children involved in the Center's eco-education projects.Greywater irrigated south-facing planter bed in the Leslie Science Center 's MichCon Nature House works as the greywater purification plant.
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Planter beds of different shapes and denominations have been used for symbiotic irrigation and treatment in many public facilities around the USA and Canada |
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Indiana County, Pennsylvania lakeside meeting center. Flower beds are an ideal use of the greywater irrigation and purification planters. |
Greywater irrigated lean-to greenhouse where overcast skies are rather the rule during the winter. |
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