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Re: water catchment
- To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: water catchment
- From: Scott Pittman <pci@permaculture-inst.org>
- Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 14:22:13 -0600
- In-reply-to: <LYRIS-101940-37071-2001.04.28-11.05.36--pci#permaculture-inst.org@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Newsgroups: permaculture
Probable the most effective and inexpensive way to accomplish this is to
build ferro-cement tanks. We are cosponsoring a ferro cement workshop at
the build here now conference in June. We have a couple of Brazilians
coming to build a large ferro tank in two days. They are very good and can
produce a five thousand gal. tank in that time.
Scott Pittman
At 11:05 AM 4/28/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Greetings, I'm designing a community garden for the lakehead Coalition
>Food Bank. We
>have the use of an abandoned school for food storage and can use the land
>for the
>garden. The water in the building is not turned on and the owner will not
>do so. The
>building has no eavestroughs or downspouts and is quite high. The roof has
>a major
>hole in it and needs work, most likely just patching for now. I need
>someway to
>collect and store water on site. Ideas?
>
>Bob Ewing
>Thunder Bay
>
>
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