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A luxury residential building in San Francisco known as Fifteen Fifty, has the city’s first approved and operational onsite greywater reuse system.
Permitted and operated by Epic Cleantec, the system can recycle up to 7,500 gallons of greywater per day, or 2.5 million gallons per year – equivalent to 19 million bottles of water. The Fifteen Fifty installation captures, filters, and disinfects greywater from showers and laundry and rainwater from the roof, reusing the highly purified water for toilet flushing.
“Thanks to the city’s forward-thinking regulatory framework and innovative partners like Related and Epic, San Francisco is leading the nation in applying onsite water reuse technologies to diversify our water supply portfolio and enhance our water security,” said Paula Kehoe, Director of Water Resources at San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. “California is periodically subject to severe droughts, and climate change appears to be making this situation worse. It’s more important than ever to focus on creating buildings that are water-resilient and sustainable, like Fifteen Fifty.”
Epic Cleantec is a water reuse technology firm based in San Francisco, CA. The company deploys onsite water treatment and reuse systems into individual buildings or groups of buildings, converting building wastewater into treated water for non-potable applications, organic soil amendments, and recovered wastewater heat energy. Born out of initial work with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s “Reinvent the Toilet Challenge,” Epic is now trusted by leading players in real estate including Crescent Heights, Westbank Corporation, and Related California. Learn more at www.epiccleantec.com.
