Rainwater Collection – Is It Too Big For A Rainwater Barrel
Let’s face it, it is very important to know why you’re collecting rainwater, in order to know how big a container you need to store it in. If you only have a small lawn water, then the amount that you will collect in a single rain water barrel would probably be sufficient. If on the other hand you’re trying to collect enough water to live independent of any other water source, you’ll either need an awful lot of rain barrels, or you’ll need a different kind of container. There have been many ideas fo collecting large quantities of water over the years ranging from creating a pond to collecting the water in large underground tanks. There have been some very creative techniques for harvesting rain water that have developed recently.
In my opinion the most unique of these is the RainXchange. The video will make this much clearer, but I will attempt to describe this. Essentially one digs a large rectangular hole with a very flat level bottom and place milk crate-like boxes in the hole and stack them to form a rectangular space which is wrapped in a waterproof wrapping except for some of the top area. Now you back fill the hole, and then cover the area with stones, flagstones, or some other porous covering, and create fountain or waterfall that will be powered by water pumped from the underground water storage area. By connecting this to your roof drain system to get a very efficient rainwater harvesting system.
While the above is the most natural of these large collection systems, probably the most unique is The Original Rainwater pillow. They look a bit like a 750 gallon waterbed but they can get as big as 200,000 gallons. Though it is generally put under a crawlspace or porch, I’ve come up with an alternative idea of building a platform box over it and then either use the platform as a patio, or decorated in some way. We are essentially giving our Rainwater pillow a new home which I call a pillow pad.
Now one variation of the traditional rainwater barrel is a thin slimline plastic water tank designed to fit under the eaves of the house and fit snugly together for maximum water storage. Sally Dominguez’s Rainwater HOG is one of the most recognized of these. The tanks can be a arranged in a series, allowing maximum storage capacity in a minimum space. Getting back to the question of why you are collecting rainwater, you need to know why so you can work out how you should do it.. Storing water for the future is the most common since water is so vital for so many things. However today rainwater runoff is a main contributor to the pollution of large bodies of water such as lakes and the oceans. Collecting the rain that flows off your roof can help prevent pollution of our lakes and streams. Collecting all of the run off from your roof, however, would be the only way to accomplish this. Hence the 2000 gallon rainwater barrels
Just as an aside, realize, if you added a reverse osmosis water filter to your ‘water barrel’ system, it might just be possible
to live completely off the rainwater that came off your roof. This chemical free rainwater would be rich in nutrients which would create a healthier lawn or garden.Now the only purpose of this article was to get people thinking and getting new ideas. I hope you got some.
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