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Yes! In fact, there are local rebates available that help pay for your rain collection system! Find more info here!

While rain gardens are not required for rain tank overflow, we highly encourage our clients to work to form their landscape to serve to slow down the excess water. The reality is, during the rainy season, it will rain more than you can catch. Creating rain gardens and swales serves as an extra step to keep this water in your local ecology and out of the sewer.

You can use this rainwater collection calculator to determine your roofs catchment capability. (Sonoma County has an average annual rainfall of about 39 inches. Enter that number into the appropriate field in the calculator.)

Your typical rain catchment system could range anywhere from stacked 300 gallon totes, to 550 gallon slim line tanks, to much larger tanks up to 5,000 gallons. Anything greater than 5,000 gallons requires a permit.

We recommend between 6 and 10 large bushes or trees.

You can expect anywhere from 10-20 gallons per load of laundry depending on the load size. (If you're doing just 2 loads per week, thats between 1,040gal. and 2,080 gal. per year that's going back into your local ecology!)

Generally our team of specialists can install a system in 2-3 days barring any unexpected complications.

The easiest greywater system to install is a laundry-to-landscape (L2L) system. This will be the lowest cost to entry system and provides a great benefit to your surrounding landscape. Other greywater systems include systems that utilize the greywater from showers and sinks. These systems are generally more costly and time consuming to install.

Greywater is gently used water from your bathroom sinks, showers, tubs, and washing machines.Greywater may contain traces of dirt, food, grease, hair, and certain household cleaning products. While greywater may look “dirty,” it is a safe and even beneficial source of irrigation water in a yard. Keep in mind that if greywater is released into rivers, lakes, or estuaries, its nutrients become pollutants, but to plants, they are valuable fertilizer. Aside from the obvious benefits of saving water (and money on your water bill), reusing your greywater keeps it out of the sewer or septic system, thereby reducing the chance that it will pollute local water bodies. Reusing greywater for irrigation reconnects urban residents and our backyard gardens to the natural water cycle.

Larger bushes, fruit baring trees, shrubs, etc. are perfect candidates for L2L greywater.

As laundry greywater is generally filled with sediment and dirt, it would need to be filtered heavily in order to not clog the drip irrigation lines. Instead, we recommend using larger lines that lead to the bases of fruit baring trees, bushes, or shrubs by a long flexible line called Blu-lock.

You do not need permits for either laundry-to-landscape (L2L) or rain catchment systems with tanks under 5,000 gallons without pumps. Other greywater systems that require construction or rain catchment systems that have pumps will require permits.

Wether choosing to do a greywater or rain catchment system, the direct ecological impact is huge. This small, but mighty act puts you in direct relationship with your local water ecology, and can really help against drought.

Our main goal is to provide you the highest quality, cost efficient, system we can provide. With over 15 years of collective study and implementation, our specialists work with each unique set of parameters to create a system custom designed to the needs of your home and surrounding landscape. See our reviews to get a glimpse into how our clients feel about us!