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advice on rainwater harvesting and effluent treatment systems

  • 22-04-2010 11:06PM
    #1
    LithiumKid1976
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 432 ✭✭


    hi
    we are at the stage now where we need to look at a effluent treatment system, and maybe a rainwater harvesting system.

    on the effluent treatment system, does any one have any advice on things to look out for, has any one installed one and been very unhappy with running costs and performance?


    also has any one installed a rainwater harvesting system? is it worth the investment? any thing we should consider?

    i think we would prefer ones that are concrete based...

    any advice welcome.

    Thanks.


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  • #2
    FergusD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81 ✭✭FergusD


    Someone may want to shoot me for my views on this, but here they are anyhow!

    Depending on your circumstances, rainwater harvesting may not make sense. If you have a mains connection, by all means yes. If however you are boring a well, in my view, rainwater harvesting is an unnecessary expense. You are using groundwater, collecting rainwater is just an earlier step in the: rain, soak into the ground, be pumped from a well cycle. If you like the idea of softer water for use in the house - a water softener (harmless ion-exchanger) is far less expensive to put in than a rainwater harvesting system. Guess what we're doing?

    Hope this helps,

    Fergus.


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