4,000 gallons in 48 hours

[velacreations]

Is sediment and purification a problem.........I do a barrel flush and use chlorine....to treat, but is only 100 gal capacity.

I think it depends on your local climate and setup. We don't get a lot of dust or birds, here, but other people do. We also don't have any trees around the house, and that helps a bit, too.

We go through a first flush, and then have a sediment and charcoal filter in the house. Also, we have a self-cleaning overflow, which is basically a pipe that picks up sediment fromt he bottom of the tank whenever it overflows.

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Here's a photo of that:
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[Winter]

Looks alot better then my setup. Too bad I'm too poor to rebuild mine. Tank liners up here run $2000. I'll have too touch base with you on the liners here soon.

Thanks for the info and welcome to WSF.

[velacreations]

Looks alot better then my setup. Too bad I'm too poor to rebuild mine. Tank liners up here run $2000. I'll have too touch base with you on the liners here soon.

you might look at pond liners for irrigation/animal water. We have bought potable tank liners ($800 shipped for 6,000 gallons) and EPDM pond liners for tanks that don't go tot the house supply. The EPDM liners are a lot cheaper, and many online services offer shipping.

It may not come out cheaper, but it would be worth looking into.

[hunter63]

My first flush is just a pipe extension with a weep hole....works pretty well.
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Strangely enough debris does build up and collects on the gutter screen....but seem to filter out a lot of dirt like an earth filter.

Small but effective for its use....shower curtains close off the porch for the shower, had a solar collector, but was small an nor very effective so added a electric water heater, fed with 12 volt sprayer pump, w/pressure switch.

Gives ya 2-1/2 gal of hot water.

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Take as long of a shower as you want.....BUT you will have 2-1/2 gal. of hot water......LOL