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Originally Posted by ZooKeeper
250 gal storage for a little over $500, that might not be a bad investment. I will have to look into this a little more.
Edit: The only suggestion or thought I would make is to have some 5 gal and/or 15 gal containers in case you need to bail out or move away from your home.
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Build yourself a cistern.. run your gutters to the cistern.. everytime it rains the water goes to fill the cistern.. You can turn an overflow into a waterfall or a nice stream.. its what we did with our cistern .. had a stream that had wild roses and columbine growing along it..
You can make a concrete cistern for about a thousand gallons for that kind of money. Or you can build one out of concrete blocks and then paint the inside with the same kind of paint that they use in underground storage tanks. I happen to have the name of a company that sells that kind of paint.
Ya gotta be pretty careful with the paint though. 3 or 4 layers, each painted a different way, one layer up and down, next horizontal, next up and down and so on..
One can purchase at Wally World collapsable water containers for a reasonable price. Water is easy to aquire.. keep a bottle with bleach in it..
few drops in the bottle and the water is purified.. too much and it tastes like crap.. btdt that last fall when I shocked my tank..eewww nasty taste but it biodegrades overnight. How much bleach.. You can put it in one of those plastic campting bottles.. do NOT use aluminum bottles. It will eat away the aluminum.