Greywater system design

CBC are able to design greywater reuse into your wastewater system. The benefits are:

• reduced wastewater field size (20%)
• often an extra bedroom is permissible (eg a 3 bed house on a 2 bed section)
• saving water (around a third, or much more if used in place of drinking water in the garden)
• reducing the load on your wastewater system

The drawbacks are:

• you need to buy a greywater system (other systems and designs also possible)
  
• as with any wastewater system there is a maintenance requirement
• to obtain permission for a reduced wastewater field or for use of greywater in the garden requires a discharge permit

Price:

This is a free service as part of a wastewater report with CBC. To do a design specifically for greywater where there is an existing wastewater system in place (which does not need to be changed) typically costs about half the cost of a full wastewater system design report.

Craig Brown is the business development manager of ECOplus and gets a commission on greywater systems sales in the Auckland Region.  This makes CBC well placed to help with consents for greywater systems, but please be advised that CBC takes great care to offer impartial, independent advice and does not push clients into purchasing a greywater system, or any other kind of system. For this reason, we don’t mention greywater recycling unless: 1) a client enquires about it, or 2) it may be required to achieve a client’s development aims. Of course, many of our clients seek us out because of our specialist knowledge in this area and our track record of gaining consents in difficult circumstances. But if you are not one of those clients, rest assured that the majority of our work does not involve greywater systems.