To protect the municipal water our flowers, bushes and tomato plants, we installed an easy to handle plastic bottles, 150 liters of tank farm irrigation-type stocks under the bridge, where we once again there was a rain barrel hidden. We drew the discharge of rain water collected from the tank with a small portable electric pump with a bowl garden hose connected to the mains to her. During the manual watering our plants, we checked the river with an adjustable nozzle on the outer end of theTube.
Used items
150-liter storage tank with a plastic watering cap, 35 "H x 39 W x 58" L (acquired by a discount offer at the farm shop)
a portable 110 VAC-submersible sump pump with a flat bottom, type of land with rubber tubes, or equivalent 1/4-to-1/3-hp
four strips of wood at low cost, 1 "x 2" x 40 "
A role in fine-mesh aluminum window screen, 64 "x44" or larger
eight 1 ½-speed long screws and a screwdriver compatible
Boxof 4.1 "brackets and hammer or equivalent
a garden hose 8.5 "50", or as requested with adjustable nozzle
an extension cord (length required to reach an output)
a power of 110 VAC external (controlled switch, if possible)
a rain gutter to leave the house roof
Assembly
Fix the wooden slats across the width of tank top tight screwing down to the edge.
Put the sump pump with a tube attached toBottom of the tank to the desired position. Let electric cable connecting the garden hose hanging over the edge.
Spread the screen to the ribs on top of the tank to completely cover. Staple the screen to the bottom of the slats. Allow to remain part of the screen above the pump and the cable and the tube, as a loose flap in case the pump needs to be repaired or removed.
Tighten the drain plug.
Put the tank near the outlet channel. If possible, hide behind or under a bridge or Busch, orcamouflage to taste.
Heading towards the end point of the channel, the top of the tank through the screen so that the tank is to collect rainwater.
Expand the extension cord to the AC.
Water collection
Experts say an inch of rain, a total of 600 liters of water from a return home of 1,000 square meters of users. Our house is over 1000 square meters. Thus, our tanks filled to overflowing from a jet in the first move. The overflow drainedthe house on a sloping terrace.
We had no difficulty in water from the reservoir during the summer because we had enough rain this year. A larger tank would be filled as well. The tank is good for screens, and keep their water free collection of debris that passed over the wind blown grass, leaves and other material from the screen covered gutters.
Two advantages
Two main advantages are with the collection of roof waterin this way. First, the tank is not a thorn in the side because it was hidden. Our plan is surrounded by bushes.
Secondly, the pressure of oil on an adequate scale, at any time, provided the pump, even if the water in the tank got low. In fact, with our configuration to pump fuel, we could run several sprinklers for the lawn, too. You could try that next summer, though it may require a different pump.
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