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| vtsteam:
--- Quote from: awemawson on May 28, 2015, 12:50:29 PM ---Steve, Glad that the heavens opened for you, must be worrying for you if you are entirely dependant on your spring. Are there water bearing strata below that you could drill down to? --- End quote --- Cheers, Andrew! I tried DIY drilling, a few years back, and It's awfully slow going in this rocky soil. And many people I know in the area have 400 foot deep wells, which would be impossible without a professional rig. A 3000 gallon cistern, would easily tide us over a month of drought, and any rain in the period would tend to refill it, rather than, as now happens, just go out as overflow. Cost would be about a tenth of the well, and I can do it myself. Plumbing in a separate feed from a nearby stream to the washer and WC would probably halve our consumption as well, so we could easily go 2 months of drought with a bigger cistern. Since drought is unusual, once these measures were in place, I'm sure rain would be constant forever after, and flooding a problem. |
| vtsteam:
For the cistern, I'm thinking of one somewhat like this urn shaped ferrocement type from a book (Water Storage -- Art Ludwig) from Oasis Design (great book btw): Other interesting design info: http://plantwater.freeservers.com/Techniques/rain_water_storage.htm |
| S. Heslop:
I'd offer you some of the water that falls on England but it's now all privately owned by a Chinese bank. Who recently started closing recreational areas around reservoirs so they didn't have to worry about liability or maintaining them. |
| angus:
not all English water is owned by the Chinese.... some is owned by a Canadian pension fund :doh: |
| Ginger Nut:
How to solve UK's drought Collect and recycle all of the nations weekend boozer phiss and it should fill the dams at least 1/2 way |
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