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The Wildflower Center used to have a virtual tour of the 
rainwater harvesting system at www.wildflower.org but the 
website's been through several incarnations since I left 
and it doesn't appear to be there anymore.  They also had 
a nice free brochure that illustrated and explained all of 
it, so anyone interested might inquire about it through 
their website.

Two other Austin-based rainwater harvesting businesses are 
Tank Town and Timber Tanks. Maybe that's on the website 
you shared, too--didn't get a chance to read it yet, maybe 
I'm duplicating info.

One of the problems we face in collection here is you 
never know if you are going to get your yearly 24 inches 
over time or all in one day!

--Sage
Way out in Texas

On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 11:14:20 -0500
 Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:
> On Sep 4, 2007, at 10:47 AM, <eureka AT hctc.net> 
> <eureka AT hctc.net> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> There is a picture on that site that shows the 
> stone-veneered tank at  
> the entrance.
>
> > . . . 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.
>
> I am currently building 500 feet of water lines in the 
> front yard.  
> One ditch area--where the leak was--dug very easy and I 
> went deep.  
> Wonderful spot for future archeologists to sort through 
> my refuse.
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