Rainwater Catchment Systems

[5ohmustang]

Does anyone here use rainwater catchment systems on their home. If so could you post a picture, I'm interested to look at the various setups.

[5ohmustang]

That sounds very interesting.

The rain barrels here come with a diverter kit.

The first flush setup sounds interesting.

I need 4 of them for each gutter. It was raining heavily today and there's usually heavy run off. I could dig a trench to go downhill to a drainage ditch via PVC pipe but it's a long way to trench.

I could use a garden hose to connect to the barrel via a spigot and run that down to the ditch or harvest the water for irrigation use or even a gravity feed filtration system.

I have a well which I can switch from the grid but a gravity fed filtration but would a good backup.

[5ohmustang]

I see what you mean now about first flush in this PDF.

https://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/hawaiirain/guidelines...