posted 2 years ago
For plants, I think a good place to start would be to look into high ph tolerant ones.
I've planted some seedling irises that I started under the canopy of some pines in deep shade. They are growing but very slowly and will likely never flower there. They're said to be good at water clean-up and can handle high ph. I have bearded iris, but I've considered using yellow flag iris in some sort of raised bed/container for a future grey-water system project. I've read that it can handle more water and higher ph, but they are apparently pretty invasive.
Cattails are another useful but somewhat invasive plant under the right conditions. I'm not sure how much shade they can tolerate though.
Seaberry is a shrub that is tolerant of high ph and road salts, coastlines being one of its native habitats. Caragana is another higher ph tolerant shrub. I have both growing near our driveway/road where snow gets piled from the plow-pass all winter and they seem to do well there. They do require a good amount of sun though, and would likely need to be a bit mature before being able to handle that amount of water.
Another possibility would be to make a charcoal/sand filter and run the water through that first. I like the let it sit and evaporate method as well.