Water Harvesting

robclay26

I am looking into this rain water harvesting idea.
Could you filter the water from your roof directly into your well? As for the well water would be filtered, treated and run through UV light for potable uses.
Would such a simple solution work?

I know there is the systems where you put a larger capacity tank in the ground, fed from the roof rain water and then filtered and pumped to your header tank in the roof.

Would a direct feed into a well be an option?

Any information or feedback would be great

fclauson

If you have a well why do you want to harvest rain water ?

Sort of the good lord and the fields around your well will do that for you

robclay26

fclauson wrote: »

If you have a well why do you want to harvest rain water ?

Sort of the good lord and the fields around your well will do that for you

I know a well is good and what they can do, but a top up or extra source of free rain water as back up is a good idea.

wexie

Even if you just used harvested rainwater for flushing toilets and outside taps you'd saved a significant amount of water and would only need very basic filtering.

fclauson

Seems pointless to me - rain water need filtering just the same as water out of the ground

robclay26

That is very true. Its quite a new method in this country for dealing with water. As with micro wind generation, we get plenty of wind to make the investment in a small turbine and here, we get more than enough rain to be independent of water charges if we had a sufficient system even as you said to flush the toilets

fclauson

But you say you have a well - most wells are dug deep enough not to need to meet your needs

I do not understand why you would want to divert rain water from your roof down there when its already collecting its water from many acres of land elsewhere

quietsailor

I don't know if your working on the idea that the level of water in the well will rise up the well shaft if you pipe the rainwater in there but it won't. All that will happen is the existing water in the well will flow "backwards" and the level will always stay the same.

The well level is dependant on the water table ie amount of water stored in the ground

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