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Wednesday, May 28, 2003 ( 8:37 AM ) Mega I left the hatch in the crawl space open. I am an idiot # Tuesday, May 27, 2003 ( 8:47 AM ) Mega more heavy rain 7-13 mm yesterday but I think a lot more fell in Rupert. I was able to test the system partially and had to repair one small leak in the cistern ( forgot to glue some of the drain pipes ) but otherwise It looks like it will work pretty well I have to come up with a better overflow control system on the upper barrells and hopefully the newly sealed cistern will perform well I will be away for a week so hopefull when I return we'll get more rainy weather as its great for testing. needs: 1 1/2 or 1 3/4 flexible hose for overflow panty hose for filter material create a lid for each upper cistern with filter pump and pressure tank wiring plan re: new hot water heater low flow shower head # Monday, May 26, 2003 ( 8:35 AM ) Mega Well Saturday I built the rest of my system. Now all thats left is the finishing work which I will do tonite I will post then after a test run. # Sunday, May 25, 2003 ( 8:04 PM ) Mega yesterdays rainfall 24 mm to possibly 42mm, outstanding # Friday, May 23, 2003 ( 9:43 AM ) Mega Here my list for saturdays project 60 ft of 1 inch pvc water line 2 2inch to one inche reducing setups 8 ft of 2inch abs drain line one more 2 inch T a shower head 4 concrete blocks # Thursday, May 22, 2003 ( 9:08 AM ) Mega Sat is my day for finishing this project Forecast is looking good.... or bad I guess good for rain Sat and Mon and Tues upcoming I will update from the lake on Sat au revoir # Wednesday, May 21, 2003 ( 8:19 AM ) Mega rainfall yeasterday appears to have been somewehre from 3mm to 7.4mm depending on which source. I have picked up some more piping and hope to finish my cistern design this week-end # Friday, May 16, 2003 ( 8:33 AM ) Mega no rain # Thursday, May 15, 2003 ( 8:10 AM ) Mega rainfall yeaterday 0.4 mm weather outlook has no rain forecast for awhile at least I won't be checking on my system till next week. # Wednesday, May 14, 2003 ( 8:02 AM ) Mega rainfall yeaterday 2.8 mm one of my settling tank barrells had the float valve get stuck open. I wonder if it stayed shut yesterday and filled the barrell? I need to price out and aquire these items to complete the system 55 ft of 1 inch water line 20 ft flex 1 1/2 inch drain line 3 1 1/2 inch t connects 1 1 1/2 to 1/2 inch dishawasher and 5 ft of clear line 4 concrete blocks # Tuesday, May 13, 2003 ( 1:55 PM ) Mega May 11 rainfall 6mm Ithink this was the rain that filled the barrels Intersting weather station data from kanata # ( 1:02 PM ) Mega Faced with a deteriorating well a steeply sloped lot I decided a rainwater harvest system was the best bet to provide water for my cottage. I began with the math: Location: Rupert West Quebec Roof size: 540 sq ft or 50 sq m Pitch co-efficient .75 Filter efficiency co-efficient .9 A pitched tiled roof with an area (plan view) of 50m2 in an area with a local annual rainfall of 861mm would yield: 50 x 0.75 x 0.9 x 861 = 29,059 litres To calculate the required tank size A proven and workable rule-of-thumb sizes the tank to store 5% of the annual rainwater yield. This has been shown to give a reliable optimum tank size. For our example therefore, the storage tank required would be: 5% of 29,059 = 1,453 litres Then I designed a system. Faced with a cold climate I needed some storage indoors. Thus an expandable linked barrel system in the basement fed by 200 litre barrel settling tanks placed 10ft above at the bottom of the eaves trough downspout. Using the formula for water pressure 1ft rise = .433 PSI my feeder system is pressurized to 4.33 PSI enough to power an outdoor shower and fill the indoor cistern after a heavy rain. The use of food grade barrels and toilet tank flapper valves I was able to create 800 litres of storage for $200 Cdn expandable at the rate of $35 for 200 litres. The eaves trough around my house needed replacing. I used aluminum trough total cost $160 Cdn . The downspouts are ABS 2 inch drain pipe total cost $90 Cdn. Its taken my 3 days to install the first half of my system, the eaves downspouts and the settling barrels. I still need to solve the filtering or roof washer problem install the water line and outdoor shower, plus decide on a pump that will draw from the cistern. This blog will chronicle my follies and foibles as I attempt to get this up and running. Thanks to all those pages who cam before me. I have linked your scources To contact me use megastir"no_spam"@yahoo.com 
# ( 8:45 AM ) Mega May 12 Precip. Total 3.8 mm upper Barrels full OK so I built most of the system. Its located near Wakefield Quebec the specs are as follows: # |
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