permaculture

[Claude Genest <genest@together.net>]

Hi Bob,

There's a manufacturer of Water tanks in Cananda ( Ontario I believe) called
diverseplastics.com

They sell all kinds of water tanks at good prices. ( I'm looking to buy a a
tank for greywater and a narrow 300 gallon jobbie that'll fit through my
doorway and down into my basement for drinking water)

Unless you're going to put the tank inside, you'll need to bury it good and
deep in your neck of the woods to avoid freezing.

Think about where you'll place the tank to get the benefits of gravity.

I'm presuming you're intersted in storing drinking water.

If it's for gardening purposes, 55 gallon drums will work just find and
remember that the cheapest/easiest/best water storage is the ground itself,
followed by mulching,  so factor that in to your earthworks.

It's not how much rain falls, but how much stays.

> From: Bob Ewing <sixdegrees@baynet.net>
> Reply-To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
> Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 11:05:30 -0400
> To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
> Subject: water catchment
> 
> Greetings, I'm designing a community garden for the lakehead Coalition Food
> Bank.  We
> have the use of an abandoned school for food storage and can use the land 
> for
> the
> garden. The water in the building is not turned on and the owner will not do
> so. The
> building has no eavestroughs or downspouts and is quite high. The roof has a
> major
> hole in it and needs work, most likely just patching for now. I need someway
> to
> collect and store water on site.  Ideas?
> 
> Bob Ewing
> Thunder Bay
> 
> 
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