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Rain Barrels and Gravity
4 CommentsMike in Mendota Heights, MN wrote:
This picture is of the rain barrel my wife and I put at the top of a rock wall. About 20 shrubs and a small vegetable garden are watered from the barrel. Putting it on the top allows gravity to work in our favor. We rerouted a downspout from the roof to put more water in the barrel. That also helped a drainage issue in the backyard.
We put another barrel in front of the house to collect the discharge from a sump pump. More free water. We are big fans.
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MikePublished on June 6, 2009 · Filed under: Show and Tell
4 Responses to “Rain Barrels and Gravity”
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Lori said on May 11th, 2010 at 11:47 pm
You said you have a rain barrel to collect discharge from your sump pump. Can you tell me how you did that? I am not exactly handy but I can follow directions! My sump pump is now discharging about 2.5 feet above ground into a not so attractive or useful black flex piping thingy. Can you help?
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Joey Doering said on May 17th, 2010 at 7:00 pm
Where did you find a rain barrel that attached to a sump pump?
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Kathleen said on June 29th, 2010 at 8:52 am
Mike,
We are wanting to install a rainbarrel to catch water from our sump pump. Did you have any special issues that arose with this project?
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Hello people, thanks for your interest in rain barrels and sorry for the slow response, this blog is rather new and was not getting any visits yet so I left it alone until you posted some good questions. I have made rain barrels 1.) to collect graywater from washers, showers and leaky basements 2.) which use a sump pump to push water up elevations for livestock, to gardens and ponds and far from leaky foundations. Gravity can only push water so far from a rain barrel. I can pretty much make you anything you want or consult so feel free to “contact me”.
