Largest Retail Rainwater Catchment Showroom in the U.S.

[Dover]

I hope we see many more of these stores:




The new 3,500 square foot retail store features a wide assortment of rainwater system components including: rain barrels, tanks, filters, pumps, accessories and fully integrated systems. Everything to build a rainwater collection system is now available in one location. The store also features a fully functioning rain harvesting system to demonstrate how rainwater systems work.

Rainwater capturing systems have been complex, costly and difficult to locate through the disparate network of vendors and manufacturers spanning several countries. RainHarvest Systems is focused on removing the barriers for widespread deployment of rainwater catchment in the United States. RainHarvest Systems sources top tier products from the leading manufacturers and purchases by the truckload, dramatically reducing shipping costs and passing these savings on to customers.

“Having a store and warehouse allows our customers to see exactly what they're buying and compare alternatives”, says Randy Kauk, co-founder of RainHarvest Systems. He continues, “We've been told that we're the first in the country to offer such a variety of products in a wholesale and retail environment”.

RainHarvest Systems stocks cisterns and tanks, rain barrels, filters, pumps, first flow diverters, tank monitors and accessories from 3P Technik, RainHarvesting, WISY, Rotonics, Norwesco, Ace Roto-Mold and more. A wide range of tanks are in stock, from 40 to 2,000 gallons and tanks up to 50,000 gallons are easily available.

Customer Greg Dickson said, "The store makes it so easy to understand how all the parts fit together. Before, I was surfing the Internet for hours looking for information; now, in one place I can see it in action and buy what I need for my house. This is just what the average homeowner needs.” ...> http://www.harvesth2o.com/PR_Rainharvest.shtml


http://www.rainharvest.com/

http://www.rainharvesting.com/content/default.asp




Other good product sites:


Rain Tube
http://www.raintube.com/

Rain Reserve
http://www.rainreserve.com/

Rain Water Hog
http://rainwaterhog.com/

Rain Water Pillow
http://www.harvesth2o.com/PR_RainwaterPillow.doc
http://www.rainwaterpillow.com/

HarvestH2O
http://www.harvesth2o.com/

ARCAT
http://www.arcat.com/

[here_is_to_hope]

1. In Montana...

The locals were shocked that I had built rainwater catchment systems, shocked! My place is in an area that gets maybe 14 inches a year, mostly as thunderstorm activity in the summer. There was no reason not to catch rainwater.

Now...here in Coos bay, its "illegal" to use rainwater because "it will wreak havoc on the water treatment plant".
:wtf:

[Kali]

2. it IS good in some ways but

jesus fuck, why do we ALWAYS make things into expensive, consumer-oriented, complicated, high tech, need-experts-to-do-everything-for-us, huge, mega-projects? Collecting rainwater is stone age, dumbass simple.

[Dover]

3. These are the businesses of the future, imo.

And not only do stores like this indicate that rainwater harvesting (and sustainability) is finally making it into mainstream consciousness, but they also provide a place to LEARN about how it works. It may be an ancient system, but few contemporary people have any experience with it. AND there have been many improvements...self-cleaning gutters, tanks, filters, etc. Once one understands the principles, these systems easily lend themselves to inexpensive do-it-yourself installations. It can be as fancy or simple as one likes and can afford.

If just 1/3 of people would use rainwater exclusively for their landscapes, that would be a phenomenal conservation success...never mind its use inside the house.

[Indenturedebtor]

5. No kidding. There are communities all over the world who have been doing this for millenia n/t

[stuntcat]

4. thanks for those sites

We're going to build our own and we've gotten most of the stuff together but we really don't know what we're doing! I know it's simple but we need pictures :)

[NoFederales]

6. If you need some planning & "attitude" to go with all these goodies

google Art Ludwig and Brad Lancaster. Great stuff.

Bookmarked......K&R

NoFederales

[seasat]

7. That site tried to dump a virus on my computer

You might want to warn the owners of that site that there is a script that will allow a hacker to take control of your machine being propagated by that site. It tried to put the files jloader<1> and the q1.dll file on my machine. My McCafee virus scan caught them being downloaded to my temporary internet files. It identified it as a generic backdoor Trojan.

[codjh9]

8. Cool - one of my cousins is 'off the grid' re: water... very cool house she has