Patent ID: 7572378

Claim:
A process for irrigation of man-made landscaped areas, which comprises: (a) procuring a supply of reclaimed water selected from the group consisting of treated sewage wastewater, untreated sewage wastewater and natural water supply water containing sewage wastewater; (b) subjecting said reclaimed water to a plurality of monitors and testing said reclaimed water with said plurality of monitors to obtain a plurality of test results for water quality characteristics, including: (i) pH (ii) residual chlorine; and, (iii) sodium; (c) inputting said test results to a computerized data handling system for data collection, storage and analysis for comparison to predetermined acceptable ranges for each of said water quality characteristics, and providing feedback to show any water quality characteristic deviating from said acceptable ranges wherein said feedback is one or more selected from the group consisting of sounding an alarm, automatically initiating treatment of said reclaim water, manually initiating treatment of said reclaimed water, and automatically shutting down a treatment system; (d) providing a dechlorination treatment system to said reclaimed water for treating said reclaimed water with a dechlorination agent to maintain a level of residual chlorine below a predetermined maximum of said predetermined acceptable range, and activating said dechlorination system in response to feedback from said computerized data handling system when showing deviation from said predetermined acceptable range for residual chlorine; (e) subjecting at least a portion of said reclaimed water with a dissolved solid salts treatment system for removal of at least a portion total dissolved solid salts to generate reduced salt reclaimed water; (f) irrigating a man-made landscaped area with reclaimed water which has been processed in accordance with the preceding steps; and, (g) performing post treatment readings wherein said computerized data handling system automatically shuts down said irrigating when said post treatment readings deviate from acceptable post treatment ranges.