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Well, Bob - yet another apology is in order. I've done it again! Meant to  
send to the list but it went to you, instead. Mea culpa, mea culpa.
Sandy
Mid-Mojave
 
 
  
____________________________________
 From: Bunjov
To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com
Sent: 1/8/2009 10:43:07 A.M.  Pacific Standard Time
Subj: Re: [Homestead] Homesteading on the  beach?


And so, between the 'all of us' thoughtful and creative people on this  list, 
combine these concepts into ...green roofs (a la Seattle and other  areas) to 
cisterns to groundwater aquifer?
Sandy
Mid-Mojave
 
 
In a message dated 1/8/2009 10:37:20 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
bobford79 AT yahoo.com writes:

So,  the rainwatwer from the roof of the house was enough for their water  
needs?

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---  On Thu, 1/8/09, Robert Walton <waltonrp AT gmail.com> wrote:

>  From: Robert Walton <waltonrp AT gmail.com>
> Subject: Re:  [Homestead] Homesteading on the beach?
> To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com,  homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Thursday, January 8, 2009, 11:34  AM
> Someone on another list started a thread talking about
>  rainwater
> harvesting. (Sorry for those on both lists.) I  thought
> I'd copy my
> response here since we had touched on  that:
> 
> I grew up near the Gamble Plantation in Ellenton, Fl.  I
> remember the
> cistern. Water was like someone mentioned in  the Bahamas,
> like gold. I
> remember that the cistern had  plants, minnows and frogs
> growing in it.
> I think that is how  they deal with mosquitoes and stuff
> like that. It
> was still  functioning in the late 1970s. It is like a pool
> with a roof
>  with the bottom and sides made of a sort of cement with
> sand  and
> coquina shells.
> 
> I googled it and found two  pictures:
> 
>  http://www.ghosttowns.com/states/fl/gambleplantation.html
> (2nd  picture down)
> 
>  http://goflorida.about.com/od/floridastateparks/ss/sp_gamble_2.htm
>  (you can just see it to the right of the house in the
>  picture)
> 
> I've always thought that this was a good idea for  how
> to do a cistern.
> The plants, fish and frogs keep the  water alive and clean.
> If the
> cistern was a little higher  level than your garden a siphon
> hose would
> get the water out  and to the garden.



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