Recycling rain water AND old freezer

[Black Bart]

My wife has flowers everywhere so I put 55 gallon plastic barrels at each corner of the house to catch the rain water from the down spouts.

I got a small 110 volt pump and put a long hose on it she drops it into the barrel and pumps the water onto the flowers.

City can't charge me for that. :biggrin:

 

[twall]

Just don't try and filter and use it in your house. A local municipality here is going to start charging people that collect, filter and use rainwater in their homes. They say its because once that free water is used it then goes down the drains and gets treated in the sewerage treatment facility, so they are charging people for that even though they obviously can't charge for the water. That means people are going to have to have meters on the drain to keep up with how much water they're sending downstream to the treatment plant. Since the water bill already has all the treatment costs figure in, any city water they use will have to subtracted out so they only get charged the treatment charge on the rainwater they've used. I see a potential for all kinds of gov't fraud in that system. I bet it won't be long before the after use "treatment charge" will be so high that the people would come out cheaper to use county water and forget about collecting the rainwater for home use. What was it the Beatles said, "If you take a walk I'll tax your feet." I may look into this system for our use. We're on septic, so I wouldn't have to worry about the gov't charging me to use rainwater.

How truly American of them. Not in the 1776 case, but in the 2011 case. How far we've slid. :frown:

Don't forget, if you have asphalt shingles, nasty stuff gets washed off every rainfall, too. Even 20 years later.

 

[twall]

My wife has flowers everywhere so I put 55 gallon plastic barrels at each corner of the house to catch the rain water from the down spouts.

I got a small 110 volt pump and put a long hose on it she drops it into the barrel and pumps the water onto the flowers.

City can't charge me for that. :biggrin:

My mom uses an old, OLD beer barrel (the wooden kind) for the same, but there is a valve at the bottom - the garden is a good slope away from the house. Truly 'green' - no CO2 causing electric useage.

After all, serial killers and religious extremist can be linked to CO2 emissions, right? The worst stuff on the planet - although CO2 is the beginning of the food chain.......but remember, it's all humainity's fault.

First freon, then hydroflorocarbons, now this. All part of a plan. BTW, we're not only heating up the planet, we're heating up SPACE, too.........read up on it.

 

[JDgreen]

My mom uses an old, OLD beer barrel (the wooden kind) for the same, but there is a valve at the bottom - the garden is a good slope away from the house. Truly 'green' - no CO2 causing electric useage.

After all, serial killers and religious extremist can be linked to CO2 emissions, right? The worst stuff on the planet - although CO2 is the beginning of the food chain.......but remember, it's all humainity's fault.

First freon, then hydroflorocarbons, now this. All part of a plan. BTW, we're not only heating up the planet, we're heating up SPACE, too.........read up on it.

Heating up space....hmmmm, maybe that could explain those Martian tunes you are hearing late at night....