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Rainwater Harvest ManualSubmitted by Billy Bob on 12 June, 2007 - 11:18.
Free 88 page download from the grand and sovereign state of Texas. http://www.twdb.state.tx.us/publications/reports/RainwaterHarvestingManu... The section starting on page 8 is particularly interesting because it shows how to automatically divert the first few minutes of runoff from a storm to get rid of the dirt and contaminants that have accumulated on the roof since the last rain.. ( categories: )
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billy bob....
saw your picture on the bio, were you tim the tool man's neighbor, wilson?
No,
Wilson was an extrovert!
"Poverty is the best recycler"
pretty funny....
i like to see people with a sense of humor on this web site!
sovereign state of Texas
the republic of texas was a sovereign nation for 10 years. they probably took statehood for defense. necessary at the time. now looks like a bad choice.
sounds interesting, but . . .
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no period between Harvesting and Manual
http://www.twdb.state.tx.us/publications/reports/RainwaterHarvestingManu...
thanx for the correction
I edited it to remove the typo and it works now.
"Poverty is the best recycler"
Some good info
on that topic at;
http://www.arcsa-usa.org/publications.aspx
Thanks again to the Lone Star State. The previous owner of our place just let the rain water go, even though the cistern is only 10 meters from the house. We need to put in another larger one. The spring that is piped to the house is down to about 50L a day, in the rainy season it was about 650L a day. I am thinking of either having a well dug or filtering the river water. The river still has lots of water and is only about 200 meters away. I need to price some options
-Doug
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate
The tropical dry forest
is a tough place for water usage. It´s a desert 6 months of the year and a jungle the other six months. I don´t think cisterns will be a cost-effective way of supplying water yearround, but they will help. See may book review on this site for Ludwig´s book on water storage. He´s big on ferrocement being the cheapest way for water storage in LDC countries. The plactic tanks sold in Nic. are good for starters, at least for people with a little cash.
I´ve noticed that the rainy season here has periods of a week or 2 without rain. When I build my place near Esteli, my goal is to use water catchment for the entire rainy season plus 2 months of the dry season (a total of 8 months per year)without using tap water for my garden and outdoor projects. Time will tell if this works; possibly If I use ferrocemment I can run on rainwater for more than the 8 months. Also, If you do a search on the web for rainwater catchment, there are many sites. including from places like India. "Poverty is the best recycler"
billy bob, great....
plan. i would change your tag line to "necessity is the best recycler." sorry about the difference of opinion. as my dear liberal momma would say, "it's not right or wrong, just different."
I'd have to disagree Jim
If there is need and not poverty, most people in the developed world go to a store and buy a brand new item. Where there is little money, people find use in an item that we would send to a landfill. Our landfills are testimony to that. Some would rather dump it than let someone else have it.
i hear you...
but i was talking about necessity in the sense of necessity is the mother of invention.
I thought Frank Zappa
I thought Frank Zappa was the Mother of Invention ; )