Water purification system for household

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Must mygoggie start making videos of all his projects?

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mygoggie

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I have been very quiet on my Quad 33 and Quad 303 restoration threads mainly because I have been spending most of my spare time designing and installing a household sized water purification system.

The design incorporates the following components:
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[*]Rainwater harvesting to a tank farm.
[*]Condensation harvesting using an underground piping system.
[*]A hand drilled well point.
[*]Wetland system to purify the house's greywater.
[*]Irrigation system to distribute the purified greywater into the garden.
[*]A biogas digester to generate gas from the blackwater and liquid fertilizer from the digestate.
[*]A slow sand filter to purify the rainwater, condensation and well point water to potable standards.
[*]A water purification skid to control all of the above and distribute the potable water into the house.
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If anyone is interested I can keep posting as I proceed.

Here is the skid frame and cabinets assembled. Now busy with the internal pumps and piping. Then to tackle the electrical and control design.

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Revision 10 of the greywater wetland is almost complete.

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The purified greywater is pumped from here into the garden using various pipe circuits.

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The slow sand filter being built. It was a experimental tank that was gifted to me to convert.

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