Every Brooklyn brownstone should have a gray water system to feed the toilets, green roof, living wall and garden. Unfortunately there are few systems to choose from. They range between $2,000 and $7,000 for the unit not including running the extra drains from the shower, bathtub, sink and washing machine. Right now in the US
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The book Graywater, the Next Wave is one of many graywater books I have read in my ongoing search for a viable graywater system for Brooklyn brownstones. The book offers a great beginners introduction on how to build a residential graywater drainage system. It doesn’t answer my questions thought. Firstly because they flat out state
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Brac Graywater Systems is the graywater system we have in the Brooklyn Green Show House. We bought it because we were not fully educated on the graywater needs a Brooklyn brownstone has. Unfortunately it was a huge mistake. We do not think the Brac Graywater unit is intelligently designed. In fact it is over designed. Apart from
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We’ve been looking for a chlorine alternative for our Brooklyn brownstone gray water systems. Chlorine is not ideal because it gives off fumes. I’ve also read that when the chlorine molecules bond with the soil particles it alters the chlorine into a form called Chloramine that causes cancer. This is a concern if using the gray
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The way Brooklyn brownstones are currently renovated does not work. It does not work for the environment nor for the inhabitants’ comfort and utility bills. Eco Brooklyn is focused on redefining how a brownstone gets renovated. We use the Brooklyn Green Show House as an example of a renovation template that works for the triple
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Gray water systems in Brooklyn brownstones, where you collect shower, bath, sink and clothes washer water in a tank and then pass the gray water back to the toilets when you flush, essentially eliminating any use of water for toilets, makes a lot of sense. I am really into gray water systems of this type
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In the past I have posted the NY and Brooklyn DOB code for gray water systems. Henning Grentz, Consultant and Sales at New Eco and distributor of Brac Greywater Recycling Systems just sent me the most updated code. It is a newer version of the NYS Plumbing Code of 2007 (the most recent NYS version).
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We are installing a gray water system. It is still pretty unknown to most DOB inspectors in NY and Brooklyn. But it is legal if you use the right system. We got a Brac Gray Water System from their local distributor New Eco. Here is the info you need if the inspector should raise their
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Today’s issue of the NY Daily News mentioned Eco Brooklyn and quoted Gennaro Brooks-Church. They posted the below pic and had this to say about Eco Brooklyn and Gennaro: Gennaro Brooks-Church and his 5-year-old daughter always wash their hands after they go canoeing on the murky green water. A green builder and real-estate broker, Church
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My manager Jack and I were talking about the direction of Eco Brooklyn today and we were trying to put into words the concept of Eco Brooklyn’s services. Jack came up with a genius term: Urban Off Grid. That is exactly what Eco Brooklyn does. We create urban off grid houses. This does not mean
