Browse Forums Eco Living Re: Underground Water Tank in front yard 3Sep 03, 2009 11:22 am Where you are coming from is where you are going to... Re: Underground Water Tank in front yard 5Sep 03, 2009 12:07 pm Where you are coming from is where you are going to... Re: Underground Water Tank in front yard 18Dec 03, 2009 8:46 am I just got a price yesterday on a 21,000 Ltr in ground, formed on site concrete tank. $8000.00 + G.S.T Fair deal I say. They also priced a 10,000 Ltr tank, precast, dropped in, $4000.00. I think, maybe the bigger one is the way to go, 5M X 5M hole will be needed. Re: Underground Water Tank in front yard 19Dec 03, 2009 9:13 am That sounds like a good price. Other considerations are a submersable pump and rainsaver switch (option). The pumps usually have a limited distance to their control unit (10m in my case) so if your looking at 2.5m down the tank and 0.5m off the ground you need to consider it's location along with the distance between the hole and any structure. I laid a couple hundred m2 of turf just before our heat wave (Vic) so used half my 7000 liters in one week. Managed to ration the rest untill the rain came but it goes quick. The good news is that one day of rain fulled it to overflowing. Re: Underground Water Tank in front yard 20Dec 11, 2009 11:58 pm Wow! 4 of us had a 20,000 liter tank in Selby and we never emptied it. Though top loading washing machines and toilet flushing for #1 was strictly banned. Showers were 5 minutes by default - 20 liter hot water tank. There was another rusty tank for the garden at 8000 liters, never used it. I wasn't exactly frugal either. I managed to get 10 min showers using a trickle. I also used hand washing basin for clothes and the top loader to spin them out and a rinse sometimes. If it rained I washed the car. I dug pits in the clay for watering fruit trees. All of that water was supplied by a double car port roof. The house roof tanks had bullet holes in them. (2 x 40,000lt) No one we knew The house came that way - renting. I would say the roof was around 20 meters ^2 and a good rain of 3 hours would have the tank overflowing - down to the tanks with bullet holes. I really miss those hills but you can have your barking dogs and chain saws.. The sound of thunder in the valleys was awesome - and puff..! there should be ss cable so you can pull up bore pump for service 1 3166 If you can calculate the reasonable charged head from let's say 100mm below the gutter to the top of where the vertical riser's horizontal discharge pipe will be, that… 11 17539 Building Standards; Getting It Right! Thank you for the generous offer. I need to get the plumber out to give me an explanation. As mentioned I haven't seen any rain water discharge from pipes 1& 3. It… 7 10834 |