[Vision2020] rainwater catchment (was: And Now For Something Completely Different!)

[Matt]

'Downspout diverters' may be used to fill a rain barrel. I'm going to put
one in using a 'fragrant' olive barrel from TriState. If that works well I
will probably gang several barrels together for plant watering and thermal
mass in a future backyard greenhouse. For front-of-house use I'd like to use
a whiskey barrel like those sold at Stookey's

Enviro Energy sells a 150 gallon above ground rainbarrel
(http://www.enviroenergy.com/rainbarrel.htm) and there are some neat looking
ones at http://www.composters.com/docs/rainbarrels.html.

Real Goods lists some books on the subject:
Rainwater Collection for the Mechanically-Challenged 
http://www.realgoods.com/shop/shop4.cfm?dv=4&dp=406&ts=1080704&kw=rain
Rainwater Catchment Systems for Domestic Supply
http://www.realgoods.com/renew/shop/product.cfm?dp=2101&ts=3086713&kw=rain
Rainwater Harvesting book
http://www.realgoods.com/renew/shop/product.cfm?dp=2101&ts=3080117&kw=rain
I'm sure Book People can get these for you, if they don't have them already.
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-----Original Message-----
From: vision2020-admin@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-admin@moscow.com] On
Behalf Of Mark Rounds
Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 10:05 AM
I was wondering if there was some way to channel that [rain]water into an
above gound cistern for use for watering flower and vegtable gardens and
washing the car and such like stuff?