Roof Top Rain Barrel

Watering your lawn and garden can account for up to 40 percent of your total household water use.

Roof top rain barrel.

Here are two examples of rain barrel roof top catchment systems. Both achieve the desired lid results of stormwater management. You can fill a 60 gallon barrel with less than single inch of rain falling on a 10 x 10 surface so don t overlook those outbuildings when you think about opportunities to collect and store rainwater on your site. This guide will help you understand different types and uses of rain barrels.

The design of any rain barrel is relatively simple with its basic components consisting of. However the holes are large enough to allow mosquitoes and other insects in. Automatic overflow control directs water back to downspout when barrel is full. While it isn t the most affordable material out there think about standing seam metal even for a garden shed or outbuilding.

You have to admit that whether you re in a drought situation or not it s hard to pass up that much of a free thing. The first is of a complex commercial system. The top of the rain barrel is wider than many allowing for more versatile placement. If you get about 10 inches of rain over the course of the spring and summer an average 1 360 square foot roof would yield 8 160 gallons of rainwater.

Otherwise that water would run off and go into storm drains and streams.