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If you ever get the chance to visit the Lady Bird Johnson 
Wildflower Center in Austin, TX (where I used to work, now 
part of the University of Texas system) you can see the 
nation's largest rainwater collection system.

They collect about 60,000 gallons to use for watering the 
grounds (native plants don't need much water). Some of the 
features I really loved were the reversed "butterfly" roof 
over the auditorium that channeled the rain to the 
depressed center roofline and then across an aquaduct, 
part of that water filling a limestone entrance cistern, 
and a little of it flowing down a rock wall playfully into 
a pond; and the beautiful and massive spiral observation 
tower (that houses all the construction debris from 
initially building the campus--a great idea--instead of 
filling a landfill) that is also a cistern.

You can arrange tours of it, and it provides lots of great 
ideas for those of us with small and modest projects.

--Sage
Way out in Texas


On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 16:31:08 -0500
 Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:
> On Aug 21, 2007, at 7:15 PM, Rob wrote:
> > I'm sure you'll find some information on water at these 
> > links. I
> > really like the manuals from Texas and Hawaii
> >
> > http://deercreek_63080.tripod.com/theprimitivecabinwebsite/id8.html
> >
> > http://www.twdb.state.tx.us/publications/reports/ 
> > RainwaterHarvestingManual_3rdedition.pdf
> >
> > http://www.eng.warwick.ac.uk/ircsa/factsheets/HawiiRainHarv.pdf
>
> Thanks, Rob. I have finally worked my way through the 
> Texas  
> publication. It is very complete. Excellent resource.
>
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