Up close with the cistern

Here’s Tim with the almost completely installed cistern – it is ready to receive rainwater, and since it has been raining tonight, we now have our first water. In the pic below, he’s showing me the ‘first flush’ screen and diverter, which keeps the first wash, full of debris, out of the tank.

We also got [...]

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The cistern has landed!

Here’s how she looks. Look at the end of the building, see the big black tank? Tim Owen brought the tank over day before yesterday, and put it in place on Wednesday (he’s the one shown crawling out of the tank after installing the pump – he’s almost got barbecued, even though he was working [...]

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