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Program Requirements

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Simple Graywater System Example
  • Adhere to state and local regulations, including Chapter 15 of the California Plumbing Code
     
  • Your property should have the following features to be most suitable for this rebate:
     
    • The clothes washer is near an exterior wall or above a crawlspace,
       
    • The landscape should be about the same elevation or downhill from the clothes washer,
       
    • The first plant irrigated with graywater should be within about 50-feet from the clothes washer (or farther if it's downhill),
       
    • You plan to irrigate trees, shrubs, vines, or groupings of smaller plants with graywater, and
       
    • The point graywater leaves its piping should be at least 1.5-feet from the property line and from building foundations.
       
  • No filters, no tanks, and no pumps (except for the pump in the clothes washer itself) are allowed or needed for Graywater Laundry to Landscape Systems.