If you’re building a new multi-family project or a new or remodeled single-family project that disrupts a large property, you’ll need to submit plans to a Low Impact Development program.
Apartment complex at 283 W. Imperial Highway, LA, using ReWater’s rain and greywater irrigation system to satisfy LID. Finished in 2024.
Low Impact Development
A Low Impact Development (LID) program requires you to mitigate your rain run-off and its pollution. This can be accomplished in several ways but the most cost effective way is by reusing rain for irrigation.
ReWater’s water recycling irrigation systems reuse rain alone or as the back-up to a greywater irrigation system. Stored rain is filtered and used directly for irrigation, or used to clean our greywater filter and supplement the greywater system’s irrigation requirement. Either way satisfies LID.
Save Money
Reusing water for irrigation saves money. The larger your LID mandate, the more rain you have to reuse, and the more money you’ll save on landscape irrigation.
Satisfy the 2024 Code
As of 2024, the supplemental water connected to any rain recycling system now requires a physical separation from the public water supply. That separation is called an “air-gap”.
ReWater’s systems and controllers were designed to use air gaps in 2005. We worked the glitches out long ago. Our competitors are still scrambling to figure theirs out.
Never Run Out of Water
Whether you chose a rain-only LID system or a rain system that’s a back-up for our greywater irrigation system to satisfy LID, all our systems are legally backed up by the public water supply so they’ll never run out of water. Your landscape will always look great.
It’s a more complex system
ReWater offers consulting services by contract for LID projects.
Go LEED Platinum
The Leaders in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) point program recognizes the value of reusing greywater and rain. LEED gives up to three points for ReWater’s standard greywater irrigation system.
LEED’s rating system recognizes the additional value of reusing rain and its run-off pollution prevention values and provides up to 12 points total when combined with greywater. It doesn’t get any greener.
Compared to a similarly priced solar unit that will net you only 3 LEED points, installing a rain and greywater recycling irrigation system alone will take you from a Gold to a Platinum rating.