[permaculture] rainwater cachement

seaseal seaseal at got.net
Sun Oct 5 14:13:36 EDT 2008


Dear Paul,

I too am very interested in saving water. I just took a class on  
this. The first rain isn't good to measure as all the contaminants  
from your roof will be included. It's best to let that *first flush*  
go out and then begin your capture.

Let me know how your project is going. Cachement is big here where I  
live on the Central Coast of California. Workshops are going on all  
over. New businesses are starting up to provide rain cachement  
systems. I visited a fellow who dug up his front lawn, put in a 7,000  
gallon water retention system, and then planted native plants. It  
looks great and will provide one-half his garden and yard needs plus  
fire protection for one year.

Cecile
seaseal at got.net

You can never change things by fighting the existing reality.

To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model  
obsolete.

       Buckminister Fuller



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