(January 25, 2018 at 2:31 am)Whateverist Wrote:(January 25, 2018 at 1:00 am)Fireball Wrote: I've been running the water into a 5-gallon bucket to wait for warm water for a shower. The gallon and a half or so that I collect is used for flushing water. I've done this for decades. We had to completely quit watering our lawn with the new(er) water restrictions in southern California, because the only way we were going to get a 20% reduction was to do so. I have contemplated building a cistern that takes runoff from the street gutter, because of all the runoff from other people's sprinklers, and using that for flush water. Leaves and all.
I keep eyeing the water in the year around creek that runs along my Northern boundary with larceny in my heart. When it runs into the culvert that goes under my street it stays underground until it gets to the bay in about a mile. Seems such a waste when my garden could be a lush paradise if I had a certain water supply.
Apparently there are laws against capturing runoff for reuse in many places now. If I do start .. detaining .. the creek water, I'd need to get a large cistern to store it in. I've talked to an expert here on these forums who has given me a pretty good idea of what is involved. The thing is people love to walk up the creek from the park behind us and someone would report me or mess with it if I tried to leave a pipe down to a sump in the creek all the time. So I'd probably have to have something I could lower at night to pump water up. Then disappear it during the day. Not sure how often. I'd have to work that out.
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You could check into getting water rights, but I don't know the ins and outs.
(January 25, 2018 at 2:53 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote:(January 25, 2018 at 1:00 am)Fireball Wrote: I've been running the water into a 5-gallon bucket to wait for warm water for a shower. The gallon and a half or so that I collect is used for flushing water. I've done this for decades. We had to completely quit watering our lawn with the new(er) water restrictions in southern California, because the only way we were going to get a 20% reduction was to do so. I have contemplated building a cistern that takes runoff from the street gutter, because of all the runoff from other people's sprinklers, and using that for flush water. Leaves and all.
Why don't you buy a machine?
http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/24/tech/innov...index.html
I ain't that desperate! Yet.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
