On Fri, 18 Apr 2003 05:05:35 -0400, harry long wrote:

Anyone know what the maximum temperature water garden plants can tolerate
before being killed by too hot a recycled water from a clothes washer ???

I want to recycle wash water but only on warm/cold and cold/cold
cycles.... since I'd use an automatic sump pump the water will be
discharged onto the gardens immediately.

thank you.

I have a friend who uses recycled water out of the bath tub and his
experience is this...
The water can be too hot. He also found issues with the soaps ect. The fix
was to install a 50 gallon drum ( his is burried almost all the way in the
ground ) where the water can settle and cool. This way all the soaps ect,
seem to settle to the bottom and he pumps from the top. Then he clean the
drum once in a while.
Hope that helps...........
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