I can honestly say that the past few months have been the most nonstop, stressful, intense, and rewarding months of my life. We began this project 8 months ago, and I cannot believe how quickly its all gone by. Yet here we are, getting ready to present all of our work to the EPA in the hopes that they will find our project worthy of a whopping $90,000 grant to have the opportunity to build our gray water filtration system at Haircut 101.
And I can honestly say until a few weeks ago, I had an empty pit in my stomach thinking about all the hard work everyone had put into this, just knowing that we were about to kill hundreds of plants in the name of research. After years of thinking about something, you're bound to doubt yourself a time or two...
Boy was I wrong.
Quite the opposite happened actually.
As we started batch testing (soaking the plants in various types of salon water) they suddenly began to perk up, even after just one day I could tell a small difference. By the third day it was apparent that all of the plants in salon water were starting to become a darker shade of green, you could even see stripes through the leaves. By the 7th day, they were taller, stronger, thicker, new shoots were forming, and some even began to flower! The complete turnaround was remarkable, and our system looks better than it ever has.
Needless to say, the chemistry of the situation is amazing as well. Most contaminants were completely removed within 3-8 days of testing! Amazing!
Basically this all means that our whole idea may actually work, and it could work very well. Who knew?
Exciting times we live in, I cant wait to tell you all what happens in Washington next weekend; look out DC, Appalachian State is taking over!!
Check out our team hard at work over the past year http://s1156.photobucket.com/albums/p563/growcleanwater/
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