275-Gallon Water Catchment System

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This morning I was looking on Craigslist, of all places, for cheap 55-gallon drums to use in addition to the three I already had been using in my rain catchment system. Found them for $15 each (not bad). They did have soap residue in them, but it washed out very easily. (The people we got them from were making soap in them :))

The three barrels were doing pretty well but I remembered that although we are at the beginning of our rainy season here in Florida, we will inevitably return to the dry season toward the end of the year.

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Now, being on a shallow well with only 1/2 horse pump, and knowing that a few of my neighbors' wells have already started sucking up air and not water (yikes), this was imperative for me to do. (I won't go down without a fight). Also consider that it costs $6,000 to have a deep well dug and everything that goes into that. Not possible right now, let's just say. We are extremely conservative with our water here. I only shower every other day, and no more than 2 minutes at a time. I turn the water off after I get wet, lather myself, then rinse. I also collect that grey water to use on my crops.

The next 15 days show at least a good chance of rain almost everyday, so I don't think our well will go dry (cross your fingers). We need a good 3-5 inches in the next two weeks to have that water reach our wells. (My estimation).

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Anyway, we now have a total of 275 gallons of capacity to use on the crops, 110 more than the 165 we had before this morning.

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Update: I've placed a one-ounce silver coin in each barrel at the recommendation of sirknight@sirknight! I've used five older Perth Mint Kangaroos in his Australian honor! ha!

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Thanks for stopping by, hope things are growing on (ha) for all of you out there!

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