mid-summer irrigation data

Pablo Fortunato Suarez

Principal ESD Consultant/Architect

GreenArc Sustainable Building & Architecture

LEEDuser Basic Member

170 thumbs up

July 16, 2010

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Pablo Fortunato Suarez

Principal ESD Consultant/Architect

GreenArc Sustainable Building & Architecture

LEEDuser Basic Member

170 thumbs up

Fri, 07/16/2010 - 10:59

can we resort to alternative compliance path since 100% of irrigation is coming from treated gray water? - this has been in place for the past 2-1/2 years.

Dan Ackerstein

Principal

Ackerstein Sustainability, LLC

LEEDuser Expert

545 thumbs up

Fri, 07/16/2010 - 15:53

In your situation with 100% of your irrigation water coming from a non-potable, non-natural source (reclaimed water), your compliance with the credit is basically automatic. Using an alternative compliance path to document this is the right way to go.

Alexa Stone

ecoPreserve: Building Sustainability

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Fri, 06/17/2011 - 03:18

I'm 99.9% sure the above answered my questioned but I wanted to confirm that if the project site uses 100% reclaimed water from the municipal irrigation system, we should take the alternative compliance path. I am only doubting my judgement because the above scenarios sounded like the reclaim systems were on site and our situation is not within project boundary but in the immediate area. Thank you

Dan Ackerstein

Principal

Ackerstein Sustainability, LLC

LEEDuser Expert

545 thumbs up

Sun, 06/19/2011 - 20:59

Consider it confirmed Jeff - the reclaimed water does not have to come exclusively (or even partially) from your project site, nor does the reclamation system need to be on your site. No requirement of that nature exists in the credit language. Dan