Rainwater Collection
I’d mentioned a passing interest in it before. Well, MJM went ahead and did it. Very cool. I may have to give it a shot. I’m amazed it filled up overnight. But gutters do work.
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March 20th, 2012 at 10:25 am
I’ve had a rain barrel fill up after an hour of moderate rain. It’s pretty impressive. I just use mine to water the garden and keep the mosquito population in abundance. It’s hard to use all the water it collects and I only have one, but it’s definitely nice to have a little extra water in TN’s hot, dry summer.
March 20th, 2012 at 12:00 pm
This “rain” you speak of. As I understand it, it is water that falls from the sky?
Interesting. We have not heard of such things, out here in the desert Southwest.
March 20th, 2012 at 12:38 pm
Be careful about water-barrel opsec if you live in the western US.
Water rights out here are homesteaded, and not riparian, like they are in the eastern US.
Farmers and ranchers pay water district managers a lot of money to prevent property owners from impounding run-off that they have water rights to.
There was a big brouhaha in Utah over rain barrels, which eventually resulted in a stupidly complicated law that satisfied ranchers but allowed the legislature to make the legal action against a homeowner and his gutter barrel go away.
March 20th, 2012 at 3:00 pm
It’s Interior that has emergency allotment power over rainwater, right? I’ll have to check the Executive Order. Things may have changed since it rained last.
March 20th, 2012 at 3:18 pm
Gutters and cisterns to collect rainwater used to be very common in rural America. I knew of several as a kid.
However, keep in mind that a constant companion of rainwater collection is the corresponding stories of investigating funny-tasting water, only to find a dead cat or bird or whatever in the cistern.
MC
March 20th, 2012 at 10:04 pm
Thanks, SayUncle, next, I think I might stack them 3 high just to see what happens. We just have so much of this water stuff. Oh, sorry you high plains drifters.
I should add, since I’ve hooked the faucet into the same watering system (two feeds, city water and barrel) I’ve got to be real careful about creating a backflow from the barrel, into the house.
March 25th, 2012 at 2:24 pm
Rainwater is very pure, the kinds of things that might be on a hot sun drenched roof are not usually considered a health problem, as are things that grow in cool, moist and shade. Contamination by dead animals is a very rare event that only happens to people too stupid to put a screen over any openings other than a securely closed hatch, same kind of people eat off a pile of dirty dishes that are never washed.
March 25th, 2012 at 2:27 pm
To learn about making ferrocement cisterns http://www.ferrocement.com/tankBook/ch14.en.html