This media resource describes how a passive rainwater system can be designed and constructed. The Canberra Environment Centre website has a variety of resources for sustainable gardening from a permaculture perspective. Canberra Environment Centre
Cant do any of that here in OryGun, especially Potland! Us Rural OryGunions can usually get away with more, but not the City folk, between rain water taxes and property run off/Storm water, you are expressly forbade from collecting rain water, storing it or using it for your own personal needs, it belongs to the state and as such, you have no right to it! A good buddy still lives in Potland and has been colleting rain water underground in two large cisterns, and has so far, not been caught! Ever wonder why we get waste water flooding from the sewage retreatment plants, or why 102nd and Foster Road floods several times every damn year, yea, storm water! On top of that, even though Potland is around 70 feet above sea level, we get tidal currents all the way up the Columbia and Willamette and into the Clackamas and Sandy rivers, FAR above Potland, which creates Slack Current and allows all that storm water to back up in the rivers, further mixing and flooding with the outflows of all that storm and sewage waste water, but Dammit, we gotta tax you on your rainwater run off and your storm drainage usage, and for your own good, don't eat any fish caught in the rivers, and for god sakes, don't go swimming! Now, other states I reside, THIS is super smarts, and should be super easy to set up and fine tune, Good video!
