OKC Residents Encouraged To Invest In Rain Barrels

[Jeff405]

If you had the large ones on the front corners of your house, you could build a small picket fence to surround it for cheap. And you could paint little flowers on it so it looks like a garden.

 

[dennishoddy]

Bury the drums so that only half sticks out of the ground,(plant a bush in front) and use a small electric pump for watering. Solar powered pump if one wants to really go green.

 

[subprep]

I've seen some nice barrels at sams they are pricey but they are a terra cotta color with a planter on top. I like this idea, its better than outlawing the collection of rain water!

http://www.hayneedle.com/product/rainwizard50gallonrainbarrelurn.cfm

 

[Shadowrider]

Is it only me that thinks it's just asinine beyond comprehension that there needs to be "regulation" of this practice? Big brother: "Yea we want you to do it, but you gotta do this, and this and this." It's freaking water!

My God I want to move soooooooooooooooooooooooooo far away.... :finger:

 

[jstndrfr]

This pisses me off also. They want to regulate us, instead of keeping up their end.

Our property taxes have soared the last 10 years. Why in the world have the city's not built bigger lakes? Poor planning on their part, so now we get more regulations.

 

[Wheel Gun]

I'm going to pick up one of those IBC totes for my garden. If I add some gutters to my workshop, I should be able to funnel the downspout water to the tote.

 

[KOPBET]

What makes them really attractive? Good muscle tone and a mustache? :-)

Maybe a long not so narrow spigot?

 

[yukonjack]

Cool Idea.

Here is a little food for thought. GW Bush's house in Crawford Tx. has a rain water collection system where the run-off from the roof goes into a graveled area, and is collected in a cistern for outdoor watering, and as a back up, can be purified for home consumption.

Al Gore does not have any sort of recycle system at his home.....

The vast majority of residents in southeast Alaska use rainwater as their sole water source. This was our old place just north of Ketchikan. No treatment of the water was needed. Well, maybe pour in a cup or two of bleach every other month and stir with a long 2x4.

 

[53convert]

I got tto 55gallon drums hooked to rain gutters on my chicken coop.
Saves me a lot of water haulin and hose dragging plenty of good water for the flock

 

[dennishoddy]

Is it only me that thinks it's just asinine beyond comprehension that there needs to be "regulation" of this practice? Big brother: "Yea we want you to do it, but you gotta do this, and this and this." It's freaking water!

My God I want to move soooooooooooooooooooooooooo far away.... :finger:

There are islands for sale, cheap in the Carib.

They have no water, and no infrastructure.

I say we buy one, set up some tents, and declare war on the U.S.

Take a bass boat or some thing and say we are invading the U.S. When the Coast Guard intercepts us, we can surrender. War reperations would include a fresh water system, and we could built a port and casino with the results.

I think I have this thing figgered out.