Ice chair hodges are ready.

Okay.

You're the vice chair.

I don't whether you have a meeting chair.

That's right.

Yeah, pastors.

Okay.

I'll like a call this uh meeting to order and uh we'll do that for it.

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Commissioner Chair de Green.

Commissioner the Green.

Yeah, yeah.

Commissioner in a different meeting.

Commissioner Gandora, excuse Commissioner Gill.

Yeah.

Commissioner Johnson.

Commissioner Zilda.

Yeah.

And Vice Chair Hodges.

Here.

We have a problem.

And um I go over the topics.

Yeah, yeah.

Um discussion on the beginning of a process to establish Albany accounting grey water standards and recommendations requests on the coming range.

Um about outside commissioner vegancy or district one.

So follow up with this for discussion.

So I asked to have that go on the agenda because we had talked about a little bit when we were working on the ordinance.

And then also when we were talking about on site wastewater treatment systems and in Sunole, there was a lot of concern about nobody wanting to hook up to a central system because they wanted to make sure the water stayed on their property and preserved their trees.

their house and um and we talked about a little bit when we're working on the ordinance which gosh is 10 years now and eight years and um then we decided we we couldn't deal with at the time and we put it off till later and i and i think that you know with people needing to preserve the water on their property because of the lack of rain and the lack of water and the population growing I think for us to be thinking ahead we should probably talk about gray water and what we can do to promote gray water and to make it so that people design their homes and their properties to accommodate gray water and so that's why I'm throwing it out there as a discussion item that I know that it probably involves more than this environmental health it probably involves the building department but I think we can work together yeah yeah um so if you want I can um just uh put up some slides that I just did together I'm not an expert in the gray air breaks but I can uh just throw some stuff up there so if we can start some discussion um I I do want to say that I think it's uh I'm I'm in favor of it um the state has a requirement for counties to develop and submit something called a throughout resiliency plan and every county has done it except our county um and it is to address the very things that a lot of people that you know come to on type wastewater system commission people that live in uh unincorporated areas have wells are going dry that's they need to haul they are hauling water people are hauling water um and then so you know this is real this is happening and um I've been sounding the alarmed uh to get uh our county uh agencies it's a big task force it's not something I can do by myself and have actually been met with silence for five years um and I sounded the alarm again uh last month and started to get a little bit of movement I think it's interesting I want to bring this up because um we had uh hearing that the board of supervisors had a hearing on the um say project which is a camp in um or is it pole canyon I forget I don't think oh can you and there were a lot of you know lots of uh reasons and and I I sat on that hearing that lasted for six hours and there was a lot of you know talk for all kinds of reasons but one of the things that was vocalized on that was that people were concerned about their wills and people were concerned about their will swim so this um this falls into that right it we are in a drought state uh and it's not getting that and so how do we start shifting that momentum from kind of standard you know we're just gonna treat everything as sewage uh and uh not conserve water and so funny when you said you know start thinking about how people develop uh properties it goes hand in hand with uh having gray water systems and then having drought uh tolerant landscaping all the things that are important so uh I'm absolutely willing to uh be part of this conversation but I haven't got a whole lot of um I haven't gotten a lot of emphasis or a lot of response in this call to you know 40 public uh 40 departments saying we are required by the state to have submitted this plan two years ago and we haven't even started one um and we missed money uh that was available by the state to do some of the work um and we missed money uh to uh provide to constituents for buying holding things um so maybe this is another way to bring this in um and certainly there you know there would be uh if it I'm hoping we've seen a few emails coming in but um it would be a good place to there's a task force right that gets created uh of you know zone seven and Alameda County water district and just a million different staples right and so somebody from Bonnie it might be something you're interested in jumping on at some point in time I certainly will be on it but I I think it is I think it ties into the to this conversation um and I think it's easy for those of us that do not live uh in countries country that has a septic system for a well to not think much about it right but um it's pretty important uh and it was clear to me listening and being on that hearing that um that it is happening there there are people talking about it so if you want this isn't a formal presentation I'm not an expert I kind of threw it together right before I came here because I thought it might help with some discussion uh you guys want to see it yeah all right um share so it's you know it's um it's not a polished presentation and it is can I actually writing up as comments for the board I know that I get mail sometimes uh the lady

Um share.

So it's you know, it's um it's not a polished presentation, and it is can I ask there's a new writing of any comments for the board.

I know that I get email sometimes uh the lady who uh puts on like raywater classes and mass programs.

Yes, um forget her name.

Laura Allen, Laura Allen.

That's it.

Yeah, some just only requests, yeah, yeah.

So it might be to kind of check with her, see what other counties as far as ordinances, yeah.

Um have done.

Um it's um she's a great resource, right?

Yeah, she is, and I'm gonna give I'm gonna hand these out.

Uh again, these aren't they're they were not included as but it's I read that you need to adjust them to them up.

Um these are this is an Alamini County Water District back seat, and then this is uh gray water back sheet for Bayery water and conservation agency.

And you'll see a lot of uh links.

I mean, from this one on seven page to uh other counties like has uh a pretty uh big uh at least they have a website, right?

And other counties we do not so uh haven't just um half opening pop open this uh because I think it gives a good uh starting discussion.

I think those are big vaccines.

Um it's not these okay.

So that's so it's what's up, yeah.

Okay.

There it is.

Okay, so um it's California does have uh graywater standard, uh, some gray, you know, some some gray water standards in the um California building standards, the current standard code is 2025, came effective January 1st, 2026.

I don't actually have a copy of it, um, but uh uh graywater standards are in the um plumbing code section, which we think is part five.

Um and so one thing you know, we'll want to do is get um copy of the plumbing code.

I have some other plumbing codes, I don't think it's changed much, but uh let's just kind of talk for a quick second about what gray water is.

And grapewater seems to be called gray as in G R E Y or G R A Y.

It just depends on who the author is, or they mix it up in the same uh document.

So I'm gonna in this, it says gray water, but you'll see it on other ones as B G R AY.

Um, so the definition is that it's untreated wastewater from bathtubs, showers, bathroom wash basins, and clothes washing machines.

It is not toilet discharge, uh, unhealthy bodily waste or manufacturing waste, and that's pretty important.