Rain water collection. Drawing, description

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On a newly developed suburban area, where the problem of water supply has not yet been solved, and even on some country garden or garden plots, there are constant difficulties with watering existing plantings: water has to be carried or transported from common columns, wells or reservoirs.

Especially a lot of such troubles in the dry seasons. However, even in such periods, no, no, but the long-awaited rain will fall. But you just need to wait for it not passively, but fully armed: prepare just such a simple trap for rain jets, as shown here, so that not one of them that does not fall on the plants is wasted, but ends up in any storage tank, retaining precious moisture in reserve.

The rain trap depicted in the figures is so simple in design that it is available for construction with its own sips in just one day, but it can last more than one season. It will not require either a specially allocated area for it or any scarce materials: in any corner of the site or somewhere near the fence, collected from what turned out to be, as they say, at hand. Therefore, its dimensions will be dictated by the place allocated for it. Structurally, the entire structure consists of a support base supporting it, a winged frame-batten and a film laid on top of it, used for greenhouses and hotbeds.

Base

It can be anything, since its only purpose is to support the main water collector so that it is higher than the storage tank and has a slope towards it. Therefore, even the fence itself could be a support on one side, if the structure is adjacent to it closely. Otherwise, poles or pipes dug into the ground will serve as the basis (without digging in, they will require reinforcing struts between themselves for stability).

Rainwater harvesting
Rainwater collector: 1 - supports (tests or pipes); 2 - storage container; 3 - gutter; 4 - coating (film); 5 - fasteners (nails); 6 - gasket (tin, linoleum); 7 - longitudinal element of the frame (block, rail); 8 - sheathing (wooden planks, picket fence); 9 - wire twists

Rainwater harvesting
Option for the supporting part of the water collector (using a fence)

The height of the base, as already mentioned, will depend on the storage capacity - on the one hand, and on the desired slope - on the other.

Frame

It consists of two wings converging at an angle of approximately 90 degrees. Each wing is collected from three longitudinal battens or wooden bars (boards), on which a crate of battens, planks or a picket fence left after the fence is stuffed. All parts of the frame are fastened together with nails, and the wings at the point of their joining are connected using wire twists.

Collector

As already mentioned, the film used for greenhouses can serve as a cloth for the water collector, but old linoleum, oilcloth and any other material that is not afraid of moisture will also come in handy.

Fastening the panel to the frame with nails, under the caps of which it is necessary to place gaskets made of tin or linoleum so that the wind does not tear the panel from the caps.

The assembly sequence of the panel with the frame is arbitrary. For example, for the convenience of work, even before the frame is installed on the supports, half of the water collector panel is nailed to one of its wings laid on the ground, and the second after the frame is assembled and mounted on the supports. In this case, it is convenient to fasten the remaining part of the panel from a stepladder.

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Scheme of the fan version of the water collector: 1 - storage tank; 2 - double drain; 3 - arcuate water collector

Rainwater harvesting
Multi-tank Water Collector Kit

In the corner part of the water collector, from the side of the slope, any gutter-like drain is attached to the lower longitudinal parts of the frame on wire twists - for example. tin. The fastening of the gutter should allow its extension to be extended or shortened, if several storage tanks are used, in order to reach any of them

storage capacity

Of course, the most convenient and affordable container is any barrel (preferably plastic, as it is less susceptible to corrosion).

However, it can also be a small dug "well", the walls of which should be lined with a film so that the water accumulated from the rains does not go uselessly into the soil, but remains longer. For the same purpose, any container needs a lid, no matter what material: there will still be less evaporation.

Author: B.Revsky

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