#latebloomer #series ~ How I harvest rainwater. Several have asked about my #cistern setup. Well, here it is, and would love your input! City girl urban gardener turns late bloomer homesteader!
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Go to Doug and Stacy and look how they do their water system. They only use rain water.
FINALLY! A picture of your capture system-YES!
Okay (OH, Kaye) Install your first-flush components on ALL and EACH leader (gutter downspout). That pre-filters the water BEFORE it enters the 4" pipe, which terminates at your cistern.
Search for my moniker in the comments of your last video, where I described in detail how to build a first-flush system. Provide an email and I will include pictures to clarify stuff.
Edit: Invest in rain gutter leaf guards !!! You said you had covers, but that separated 3" PVC you showed was jam-packed full of leaves.
As for UV treatment, that is more of a point of use treatment method. I distill. Much easier IMHO.
start by having a cover made for your junction spout drains that you can pick up and check yourself stainless or aluminum,You may need to replace the whole junction area because you do not need any soil contaminants going into the system.
Interesting videos on you home stead. Your door can be secured with a simple lock hasp from any hardware store. The simple fix for your pipe that has a gap around it could be filled with expanding insulation. Just a quick fix to deter rodents and snakes. Something is better than nothing. Keep us posted on any new updates. Fun videos!!
Your UV treatment should go just before you drink your water where it comes out in the house, treatment kills bacterial growth but it won't prevent it in the system.
Thanks for a walk around of your system. By the way, a great smile!
Instead of useless prayers to some unknown god, get off your ass and do something that really works. Please live your life in reality not this horrible delusion. Now get on with it. Don’t take the easy way out.
Im surprised they didn't have a cover on the cistern.At least they should have a tarp .
There are several youtube videos for first flush diverters for rain catchment systems.
I would consider replacing the collection point from the house and putting a treatment tank at that point to add bleach tablets or liquids to treat the system.
a gutter person would need to put diverters on the down spouts that you would turn on with first rain of the season. there are several you tube videos. since you seem to have rain off and on all year, i don’t know how you would handle that. also you might want to have someone clean out your gutters, even though they are screened. the leaves breakdown into compost in my screened gutters and they were overflowing recently here. so my son got up there the cleaned out all the debris in the gutters.
Good morning my friend .You also looked so beautiful too!! 😍😍😍☺😇Beautiful angel😀😃😄😍
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Maybe look at these two youtube channels and see if they have suggestions. BASECAMP WNC and Engineer775.
Looks like your electricity plug needs to be protected from the weather.
My UV system was put just after the water tank in the incoming line.
I also use a Big Berkey water filter which is a gravity feed stainless steel filtering device.
55 gallon barrels maybe a better system and more manageable for you miss Kaye
Kaye you have the land to plant barley so you can use it to keep bacteria out of your water dear one. It is simple to cut and dry and store for the purpose of bacteria control and algae control as well. you really need to get those holes fix too and I saw the separation of the tubes also..I think I would use spray foam to close the hole of at the cistern.
If it were mine , I would put a new cistern near the house and close all pipes to avoid contamination : )
https://youtu.be/JMGpvMRMiCk
Looks like a chipmunk or squirrel left hulls of a nut on the well house floor ❤
Ooooo…this is what I needed to see! Thank you Kaye…😀. I just love that cistern. It’s huge source of water for you and your home. You very fortunate, and once you get that cleaned out….Omg…..wonderful!!
Pretty multicolored brick foundation!!
SUGESTION: KAYE, IN YOUR WAY HOME BUY A STEEL POT SCRUB AND PUT IT VERY TIGHT IN THE HOLE YOU HAVE SHOWED IN THE MINUTE 4 OF THIS VIDEO. When mices try to go inside your cistern, they have to chew the scrub, hurting inside and die. That idea is very good and them when help is comming you can have another solution.Any Dollar Tree or Dollar General sells Steel Pot Scrubbs. Hope this helps.
Super cute sweater! 🤗 TY for the tour.
That break in the PVC is an easy fix for a plumber, but that is likely a source of all the muck that was in the cistern. Is the collection box silted up too?
Example: Search "Downspout First Flush Diverter Kit 3"
I'm surprised one of the cats has not gotten in that open hole with the heavy concrete cover that is askew…Until the plumber delivers the new cover maybe you could board up the open orifices with boards and bricks on top so that no animal gets in there..
I just moved to NH wilderness.
I would think your pipes would need to be underground under the freezing zone?
Do u have a basement or storm/root cellar
Where it comes off the roof, before it goes in the Cistern, that's where a first flush would go.
Hi Kaye, In Australia we have above ground water tanks usually made from Corrugated iron and circular shape for maximum strength with downpipes going to those water storage tanks so that the water to the house is gravity fed rather than needing to be pumped up to a house from a lower level.
If you wanted just pure drinking water you could then add one of those Galvanized steel water tanks to one of your downpipes and just have the existing Cistern you've got for other watering needs.
Usually the galvanised [generally Zinc coating for the galvanizing] round water tanks are built onto a heavy stand to support them above ground [ either heavy timber or steel if required] and come in many sizes from 100 gal AU [ same as English gallon] up to a 1000 or more depending on your needs. Usually they make concrete round water tanks for up to 5000 gallons or so but not sure if they do that in the USA also but a good Bricky could probably make you a round above ground tank which you could line with concrete that would serve for fresh rain water I guess.
I have a ton of old redgum posts garnered from the local paling fence contractor which I get free of cost as he's all too happy with me taking them off his hands as it saves him an extra trip or two to the local tip [ fees are astronomical besides] to have them dumped in landfill – a total waste in my view as I use them in more constructive ways in my wood heater in the winter for free heating and have oten re-purposed them for other uses also, including shorter 4 foot high fences once the partly rotted in ground sections are cut off from the overall 6 feet posts and the above ground parts of the paling fence posts are as good as new even though showing their age.
So a tank stand would not be out of the question for my little 2 acre bush camping block at some point – even though it has a huge dam on it and never runs dry due to run-offs from other properties and the dirt road as well.
Currently I'm situated in a rural town on a quarter acre semi-suburban style block and the house runs down the length of the block with front and side yards combined into one large expanse where you could in fact build a second house if needed but will serve as a veggie garden at some point – but not set up as yet. [ too many other projects need doing atm] But I expect food costs and other cost of living expenses to rise with the war in Ukraine and other Wild weather conditions crippling economies the world over atm.
About a third of my side yard looks like a timber yard – as I've collected quite a store of untreated Pallet wood from a local roof tiling manufacturer that make their own pallets as they are constantly breaking them from overloading the pallets. Beats going out and collecting firewood for my Coonara style wood heater the hard way – or paying for logs to be delivered for firewood as I only have to go to the end of my street for both suppliers with a trailer or ute and I have both.😉.
Don't know if any of my current set-up info is useful to you but just putting it out there for you in case it might be. You know, it's fairly easy to do your own PVC water piping and you don't need to have any plumbing experience other than to know what type of PVC glue to use for joining sections of pipe and that broken elbow joint is an easy fix you could tackle yourself with a new elbow from a plumbing supplier and a length of additional stormwater pipe that has the larger overlap end on it to attach to the existing pipe and the other end going into the 90 degree elbow.
A little playing around with a hacksaw and some practise joining pipes and you don't need a plumber for simple jobs like that. I.e. you put them together dry first before jointing them with the PVC glue to make sure your pipe lengths and joins will fit before glueing them in place.
In a previous video of yours I watched you had some concerns for storing large enough petrol [Gas] supplies for your back-up Electric generating needs and as it so happens I saw a YT presentation several years ago that might be of use and I'm currently part way to making the unit the Tesslonian guy has by transforming an old defunct dishwasher and an old similarly defunct LPG [propane gas] barbeque I had for both the inner burner and outer sheet metal frames needed for his set up – all of which can be pop riveted together easily enough by any handyman/woman with an angle grinder and a drill being the only tools needed and a pop riveter also – available from any hardware store.
So here is the link to that presentation if it's any use to you also – from my youtube viewing history because, in effect, you could use twigs from tree fall to power your generator in a pinch – once that build is done – just with the basic super burn wood heater.
The rest of his set up is only necessary If you wanted to make your own oil grades from burning twigs etc – but not necessary otherwise. [only the first part of his video has the wind noise so once you get past that the rest is watchable. 😉
wood stove runs a generator, produces gasoline, runs a fridge and heats hot water at the same time
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This is the most efficient wood stove on the planet it will make gasoline run a generator and a propane fridge, heats hot water and your home at the same time. this system works on any dry organic material.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arbXj9R6ZXw&t=1448s&ab_channel=MrTeslonian
Hope some of this info is useful to you – cheers from the land down under!
Kaye, you have deep compassion for this type of work. Shalom🥰
SMART AND BEAUTIFUL "SMILE" GOD BLESS.