Well once again, we are in a drought year, apparently. I'm glad I built the big 3000 gallon cistern nine years ago. Grass is turning brown on other people's lawns (we adjacent to woods have a bit more ground moisture). Unfortunately we were unable to fill the cistern in advance of this drought. It has only about 1000 gallons in it.
The reason is that we had
too much rain this spring, all the way through June, and I don't like to fill it with surface water that can overflow into our natural artesian spring well during very wet weather.
Unfortunately we went directly from feast to famine with rain, as if someone turned off a tap. No rain for the last 3 weeks and very high temperatures (for us) have baked the countryside. I can't fill the waterball (as we call the cistern) because we are using all of the natural spring's output. And if this keeps up, we will not even get our reduced and minimal daily water needs met. The waterball can only provide about 3 week's additional buffer before being emptied, instead of its intended 3 month's.
Hoping for rain soon!
