I paced off the amount of my property that does not have rain water catchment and flows onto the street as 420 square feet which is 1% of an acre <\/p>\n
My property is four acres so that means 0.25% of my water ran onto the street. That also means that with 6 inches of rain in 3 days (which is the measurement from my buckets) I captured a total of 651,702gal minus the 1,629 which ran onto the street. Which is completely ignoring any of that street water soaking in on its own as it went. <\/p>\n
If we subtract 8,073 gallons that went into my pond, that is 642,000 gallons that soaked into the ground. And all of that water was free of pesticide contamination. All you people on wells owe me :-). And I also think I paid my food water bill this year. <\/p>\n
A lot of the water soaked in due to my hugelkulture. The pond overflow goes to a large system. <\/p>\n
My Water District pumps water up to our area from the reservoir and there is an electricity surcharge, so my 8,073 pond gallons of water doesn’t have to be pumped back up from the reservoir down below to be used by me on my orchard. yay <\/p>\n
Bob <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I paced off the amount of my property that does not have rain water catchment and flows onto the street as 420 square feet which is 1% of an acre My property is four acres so that means 0.25% of … Continue reading