Yesterday, we finally got some rain. It was so glorious, and I can’t express what a relief it was.
And we harvested our first significant amount of rainwater — about 200 gallons! While our system is not completely set up, we’ve had in a position that just in case it rained, we could catch some of it. And we did!
It was pretty amazing to see a fairly brief rain shower result in quite a lot of water in the tank. (I doubt our old small buckets would have even gotten filled.) The math of this is interesting.
It rained about .25″, and our current catchment is about 1200 square feet. It won’t take long to fill up our first 500 gallon tank. There is more rain forecast for next week, and monsoons seem to be starting. Fingers crossed. And yes, plans for more and bigger tanks (and filtering) are in the works.
With the advent of hot weather, collecting the monsoon rain, etc. will be a powerful tool to use, especially for gardening water, I suppose.
Yes, our initial plans are mostly focused on watering the garden, but as we add tanks, we hope to be able to use this water for everything.