Rainwater Harvest Early Spring 2009

Spanaway Elk Plain WA roof rainwater collection system.

A 1,200 square foot roof captures around 27,000 gallons a year! With 4 short downspouts collecting the water in capped pipes. Garden hoses connect pipes into 1,800 gallon capacity storage tanks and barrels!

Simple design built with inexpensive readily available off the shelf parts.

Rainwater from the roof fills the capped pipes.
No permanent plumbing allows the storage vessels to be moved to any location in my yard.

Excess rainwater is redirected to my backyard orchard.

Tanks from:
http://www.plastic-mart.com

Rainbarels from:
http://www.naturalrainwater.com

Downpipes, side of house clamps & gutter screens:
http://www.homedepot.com

Gutter Screens;
http://www.amerimax.com

hoses, tank fittings, adapters, y-connectors, manifolds
http://www.acehardware.com

Helpful books;

Rainwater Collection for the Mechanically Challenged.
Tre Arenz, Susy Baks, Richard Heinichen

Rainwater Catchment Systems
John Gould & Erik Nissen

The Home Water Supply
Stu Campbell

Create an Oasis with Greywater
Art Ludwig

Check out my playlist, it has many other rainwater collection systems. Some lesser expensive, alternate ways of collecting, storing filtering rainwater.

http://www.youtube.com/user/pgm98387#grid/user/F6D0347DD260C56B

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[pgm98387]

Plastic-mart is a nationwide distributer. Shipping is expensive unless you piggy back on another shipment to your location. $550.00 for the PURE1000WA model

Shipped from Washougal to Spanaway for $217.00

[davettalashley]

@pgm98387 $550 for a plastic tank just seems wrong. There's gotta be a better way lol

[pgm98387]

@davettalashley Check out my playlist;

Rainwater Harvesting

Many types of setups that vary in costs, small barrel projects to large scale systems. Depending on where you live a metal tank or cement cistern may suit your needs. Thanks for stopping by.

[Brie217]

How much was that large cistern?

[pgm98387]

@Brie217 Plastic-mart is a nationwide distributer. Shipping is expensive unless you piggy back on another shipment to your location. $550.00 for the PURE1000WA model

Shipped from Washougal to Spanaway for $217.00 2009

[marty4379]

Can you use the water for washing .In shower etc?

[pgm98387]

@marty4379 The back flow preventer should hold at 40psi if the harbor freight pump was connected to my hose plumbing. Tanks just had a fresh dosing of rainwater. Wife would be mad if I did that, maybe in an ermegency.

Not filtered from the tank, yet.

[pgm98387]

The green hose manifold cracked on the seam. Need to apply pvc cement on it.

[johnlvs2run]

Excellent video. Thank you for sharing.

[msfullroller]

Catch your rinse water from washing dishes and use that to flush your toilet instead of using your rainwater harvest. That's what I do.