Rain Water Harvesting

how to catch water from rain, with little investment on plastic barrel, concrete fundation,downspouts, pvc plumbing, you can catch water for your plants .

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• water
• rain
• barrrels
• harvesting
• storrm

[badboyorganics]

thanks for posting, this gave me some great ideas

[dagobertoposada]

@badboyorganics check part II even better, you 'll like it

[georgedonnelly]

Seems like you have a big leak there. Great piping job!

[dagobertoposada]

@georgedonnelly it was raining, barrel where full and was overflowing, was not finish anyway. now works very good.

[rstidyman]

Thank you...I never thought of this. Looks great. Are the rocks in the sink as a filter or what?

[dagobertoposada]

under those rocks there is filter, like the ones you use for fish pond filter, the rocks holds the filter down when overflows and debris flot and continues its way out . I got it all finish now and it works beautiful . thanks for yur comments

[travissimp]

Where did you get your barrels from?

[mygeo76]

Aren't you worried about tar runoff from your roof?

[MrNCPrepper]

Nice!!!!!!!!!!!

[bigbaddawn]

FYI, when you bath/wash with rainwater, you need way way less soap/shampoo, and your hair will be sooomuch softer:)

[Goodwillwin1]

Any rain acid problems?

[hamzah938]

You've done it now Watson!

[DJMovit]

I like the filter idea, not sure of laying the barrels down on top of each other in the event they shift. I have seen your second video (Ironically seen it first). Nice job!

[bsh55]

@rstidyman you could also look into a sand/rock/charcoal setup and place it in the tub.

[girlsdrinkfeck]

does it have a overflow outlet ?

[timbutler27]

What type of roof do you have? Beware of harvesting rain off of old tar-paper roofs that can leach toxins into the water and make it unsuitable for use in vegetable gardens. I believe that you're safe if you have a metal, vinyl or terra-cotta roofing. Cool system overall!

[r5t6y12]

The Philadelphia Water Department put out a small 3 fold flyer once that stated that on 2 specific day about 2 1/2 years apart the average "rowhome" in Philadelphia dispersed about 1300 gallons of rainwater through it's gutter system down into the street sewer system.

1300 gallons is equivalent to 23.6...55 gallon drums.

And that's all great and all...but where could the average rowhome store 23 drums that are each 55 gallons in size?