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[Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>]

At 9/2/2006, you wrote:
> That said, Don and I were tossing around the idea of rain water
> collection. This subject merits further discussion. I say calculate
> your annual water needs, double that, then calculate how large a roof
> would be needed to get that much water with your MINIMUM average
> annual rainfall. It seems to me that we here can come up with a
> very-low-cost roof that puts rainwater into a vessel that sits higher
> than our houses and gardens.

I did some calculations using the Ozarks rainfall of 45 inches a 
year.  These were rough with no allowance for dry years, etc.  Using an 
arbitrary roof size of a 30 by 20 building, I came up with over 60,000 
gallons a year.  I found the monthly averages and used a spread sheet for 
the monthly water usage.  Two 750 gallon tanks would store enough to cover 
the dry spells.

This was in response to comments that a well in the area would cost about 
$5000.



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Subject: [Homestead] TVO: ramp pump mentioned
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I've found that the three emails I posted to the list are the only ones
which show up in my TVO list with "ram pump" mentioned.

There are probably other posts in other boxes I have.
If someone is really anxious to read more, please contact me privately and
I'll search for them.