rainwater

[Terry B]

The good news is that my tanks are currently overflowing. The bad news is that it is still pouring down and my driveway is under water. No astronomy for quite a while now.
PS. I don't get the function of the hard drive on the tank. Is it just holding up the pipe?

[Glenhuon (Bill)]

Yep, its just the top plate of an old 2gb, only bit of aluminium plate that was handy to mount the sight tube. Recycle and Reuse is my motto

[Ric]

That's a novel idea for the HD top-plate but dont mix them up and use the good one.

Cheers

[asterisk (Geoff)]

I grew up on tankwater. I recently put in a couple of tanks to collect rainwater for the garden (only small ones - 3500l). I applied for the rebate. They sent an inspector out who insisted that I have stickers on each tank above the tap warning potential users that this was not mains water!

Another case of CYA!

[Glenhuon (Bill)]

Its the same all over. We had taps in our treatment plants in WA, all scheme water, for hosing down etc, protected by backcheck valves in case of reverse flow. But, because they were in a sewage treatment plant we had to have signs warning that the water was not for drinking The reverse flow devices were fitted by us and we were trained in the maintenance and carried the testing gauges, but because we didn't have a plumbers licence, we couldn't maintain them. We had a contract plumber that checked them every 6 months or so. Talk about keeping a dog and barking yourself, I dunno

[hookedonsaturn]

we are on a trickle feed system but still put in 3 extra tanks with more planned our total rainwater capacity is 50 thousand liters plus a dam for watering the fruit trees. beforethe last tank was installed we used a total of $36.oo for the year from the council lines so now with the dam filling and the extra tank we hopefully will be self sufficient.