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House in New Mexico Tests Water Conservation Technologies

With funding and technical support from the national Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing (PATH) program, builder Mike Chapman of Chapman Homes is showcasing the use of water conserving technologies and practices in one of his new homes.

Chapman’s home at Rancho San Marcos in Santa Fe receives approximately 10-12 inches of rain per year — usually during the months of June through August.

On behalf of the PATH program, engineers at the NAHB Research Center are evaluating the impact of the home’s rainwater collection and greywater re-use systems on irrigation water savings and the soil. The installation costs are also being studied.

Chapman’s relatively inexpensive system collects rainwater in gutters; downspouts then carry the water into an underground storage tank.

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A small pump connected to the storage tank distributes the water to irrigation areas — lawn, trees and shrubs located around the house.

Between April and October 2001, the system collected and stored almost 14,000 gallons of water.

While drought conditions have once again spread across Santa Fe County, the Chapman home is able to sustain an on-site orchard — thanks to a greywater system that collects and filters water that is drained from bathtubs, showers and sinks.

The greywater is pumped out to the subsurface portion of a mulched garden area, so any biological contamination of the land surface is eliminated.

Chapman is so pleased with the results of the pilot rainwater collection system that he now offers it as an option in all of the new homes he builds.

For more information on the Santa Fe PATH site, click here, or go to the ToolBase Hotline at 800-898-2842.

For more information on the PATH program, click here.

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