Tropical Gardening: Water Management in a Central Oahu yard
Last year I attended the City and County of Honolulu's 2019 Storm Water Quality BMPs Workshop. The last day of the conference was my birthday and my treat to myself was to attend the sessions that most interested me, rather than the ones I knew the least about. So I attended a panel discussion on rain barrels and a panel discussion on water reuse. When we moved to our rental in Central Oahu, I read the CCH ordinances and State laws governing residential property and noted that washing machine water is considered a pollutant and illegal to discharge to the ground, as was any other domestic greywater. I was not surprised the rules were the same in Maryland, had been adopted in most of Virginia. But I grew up in southeastern Virginia, before the greywater rules were adopted and every summer Dad attached the sprinkler hose to the back of the washing machine, conveniently located in the furnace room on the back of the house and next to our vegetable garden. The arm sprinkler wou