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

[Mark Rounds]

Thanks to one and all for the input.  The guter folks do indeed have some
experience with this so I am not too far out of line there.  By big expense
seems to be in the holding tank.  My calculations, given my roof square
footage, assuming that I'll at most only keep 1/3 of the rain full in
tankage at any one time still says about 400 to 500 gallons.  I think the
barrel idea to see what the actual flow is and then an above ground tank to
allow for water pressure looks to be the best bet.  Thanks again.

Mark

At 11:02 AM 4/1/2003 -0800, Matt wrote:
>'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?
>
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