Waste water is filtered by the community garden into fresh water, to be consumed by people, plants, and animals, before returning to the collective septic tank. The project is a continuous cycle of water filtration and the garden is the site for accessing the common resource. The pipe that collects waste from the rural communities around the Ashokan Reservoir, New York City’s source of fresh water, acts as a defensive boundary that prevents the reservoir from expanding and displacing more of the rural community. Based in research of the Memorandum of Agreement 1997 article 122 and septic systems, the design is a common resource and defensive of common land.
