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Making every drop count
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Designer Richard Jennings adjusts his grey water emitter at his home on Friday. Jennings uses wastewater and reclaimed septic water and in his small orchard and gardens. PHOTOS BY JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN
Reclaimed water a valuable resource
Drought, short water supply pose challenges
By Staci Matlock
The New Mexican
By Staci Matlock
The New Mexican
“D
o you know what a septic tanks smells like?” asked Richard Jennings as he lifted off the large black lid on a buried tank at his house in Sunlit Hills. “Smell this.” His septic tank is almost odorless. Anaerobic bugs in the buried tank are happily digesting the crud, cleaning it up and turning it into reusable water Jennings pumps out to a healthy-looking small orchard nearby. He jokingly calls it “poop juice” and, gross as that sounds, his system is permitted by the New Mexico Environment Department. His half dozen fruit trees and berry bushes love the stuff, just as rows of other berry bushes and daffodils enjoy the gray water that gushes out of his washing machine, flowing by gravity
Jennings monitors water for his fruit trees with the control panels on this circuit. The plants are watered with black water.
CoMING Up IN THE SERIES “The Self-sufficient City” is a six-day series celebrating Earth Week and the environment. Tuesday’s coverage will focus on recycling and waste management in Santa Fe County.
through a simple plastic pipe to the plants. Jennings has been designing graywater and “combined” gray-water and black-water systems for years. “I make all my mistakes at my house,” said Jennings, who teaches sustain-
able technology classes at Santa Fe Community College. “And I teach all my mistakes in my classes.” One thing he isn’t mistaken about — gray water and reclaimed septic
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“The elephant in the room for sustainability in this area is water,” said Santa Fe City Councilor Chris Calvert. Every aspect of a sustainable city, or even a household, depends on water. Water affects food, energy, ecosystems and the economy. The city has reduced water use per capita in the last decade and expanded its water supplies. But this is shaping up to be the third drought year in a row and the lack of moisture will test all the city’s plans for managing water supplies. Santa Fe was driven to much deeper water conservation measures after severe droughts in 2000 and 2002 forced the city to restrict water use. The city launched a toilet retrofit
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LANL asked to help save landmark Scientists could use advanced technology to address vulnerabilities of Italian cathedral By Roger Snodgrass
For The New Mexican
Can a national nuclear weapons laboratory find meaningful work helping to preserve one of the grand architectural treasures of the Renaissance? Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory recently
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hosted a delegation of Italian experts to brainstorm ways of using some of the laboratory’s technology to protect Brunelleschi’s dome, a UNESCO world heritage site in Florence, Italy. After a two-day workshop in February on the history of the famous Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral and the structural
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The cracks among the painted figures in the ceiling of the cathedral cupola are even more obvious inside the vault of the dome. They likely have been slowly expanding for more than 500 years.
damages and environmental risks that have threatened its 37,000-ton cupola for hundreds of years, an unusual relationship between art and science has moved forward. Now, the laboratory has received an invitation from the cathedral’s conservation committee to join in a collaboration. Franco Lucchesi, president of the Opera of Santa Maria
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BOSTON — As churches paused to mourn the dead and console the survivors of the Boston Marathon bombing Sunday, the city’s police commissioner said the two suspects had such a large cache of weapons that they were probably planning other attacks. The surviving suspect remained hospitalized and unable to speak with a gunshot wound to the throat. After the two brothers engaged in a gun battle with police early Friday, authorities found many unexploded bombs at the scene, along with more than 250 rounds of ammunition. Police Commissioner Ed Davis said the stockpile was “as dangerous as it gets in urban policing.” “We have reason to believe, based upon the evidence that was found at that scene — the explosions, the explosive ordnance that was unexploded and the firepower that they had — that they were going to attack other individuals. That’s my belief at this point.” Davis told CBS’s Face the Nation. On Fox News Sunday, Davis said authorities cannot be positive there are not more explosives somewhere that have not been found. But the people of Boston are safe, he insisted. The suspects in the twin bombings that killed three people and wounded more than 180 are two ethnic Chechen brothers from southern Russia — 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his 26-year-old brother, Tamerlan. Their motive remained unclear. The older brother was killed during a getaway attempt. The younger brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was still in serious condition Sunday after his capture Friday from a tarp-covered boat in a suburban Boston backyard. Authorities would not comment on whether he had been questioned. Sen. Dan Coats of Indiana, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Tsarnaev’s throat wound raised questions about when he will be able to talk again, if ever.
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Pasapick on Climate Change and What You Can Do About It Panel discussion with authors Rae Marie Taylor, Jack Loeffler and Lucy Lippard, and photographer Joan Myers, 6 p.m., Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226. More events in Calendar, A-2 and Fridays in Pasatiempo
obituaries Katey Leyba Baca, 85, April 19 Mary “Allana” Bonnell, 40, April 17 pAGE A-10
Today Partly sunny and breezy. High 76, low 38. pAGE A-12
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