they couldn't put one up for months due to record rainfall. ground pure mud, couldn't build a pad for tank. system is now 95% built and no rain in sight. that irony or what??

Try washing the car, or better yet, plan an outdoor event.

hmmmmm......will let ya know!

Some years ago, we designed a small system for tinacos that triggered an alarm in the kitchen when the rooftop tank was getting too full...

John, 'or mopping the floor' If you ever make it up this way you can check out mine. 1 - 2500 gal. tank at downspout recovery + a pump to another 2500 gal. tank at the garden area. I have a surface area on my shop of 40' X 15' per side @ a 5/12 pitch which gives you a 1.5 multiplier. I only use the one side as 1" of rain nets me 800 gallons.

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Originally posted by TomP:
Some years ago, we designed a small system for tinacos that triggered an alarm in the kitchen when the rooftop tank was getting too full...

it has an overflow system built in at the tank outside. gets pumped into attic, then thru huge filters to house

A very appropriate song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRqybNYv9N8

Grizz

Several years ago I was doing a job on a roof of a house that was pre-antebellum in downtown Georgetown. There was a cistern built into the center of the house that allowed all of the roofs sheds to funnel into that one area + then into the underground cistern. Totaly self sufficient.

Along those lines of ideas, I have several books dealing with my trade of metal working + obsolete ideas on jobs that were a necessity in the late 18th + early 19th century. Case in point was a rainwater collection conducter- head that was totally passive but was designed to flush the roof dross before filling the cisterns. It is essentially a S/M wye that has an internal baffel that is counterweighted by a pail (with a small hole in it) that will allow enough water to flow through to clear out all the dross + by that time the pail is now full + the baffel flips the other direction as the dross water escapes from the hole in the pail + only clean water goes into the cistern. Ocviously the ways assembly resets itself. I have a great respect for our ancestors.