Eco Water Recycling System

“Located in Clive in Hawke’s Bay EcoPlus Water Management Systems is an engineered household greywater treatment unit that is configured to recycle reclaimed greywater back to the water closet cistern for toilet flushing. It is the brain-child of Don Sorensen.

The treatment process consists of filtering, disinfecting and deodorising stages, using greywater sourced from bath, shower and washing machine. The recycle flow can be diverted on demand for trickle irrigation of ornamental and landscaped garden areas.

The ECOplus recycling system has particular application for existing households in rural residential areas serviced by septic tank and soakage field systems where the soakage field performance can be improved by flow reduction. It also has application for new houses in such areas where design and operation of the on-site domestic wastewater management system can benefit from flow reduction, and the land-application area (soakage field) can be consequently downsized.

Furthermore, the double benefit of having recycled water available for garden watering is a most useful water conservation measure, particularly during summer, while at the same time enabling additional reduced loading and recovery of the septic tank soakage field.”