Ending and Beginning

No, not moron water, I mean another post on water. Specifically, winter drinking water.

Okay, so I put a rain barrel in the basement. I run some of that flexible plastic hose, maybe 1″ diameter, from its watertight connection near the top of the rain barrel to a spot in the pit, ending in an upward-pointing funnel. Into that funnel, but with an air gap, I direct one of the downspouts.

The trick would be to get the height of the top of that funnel to be slightly less than the height of the top edge of the rain barrel in the basement, and to mount it in position securely and permanently. Then, whenever it was above freezing and the downspout was running and the basement barrel was not full, water would flow from the funnel to the barrel. When the barrel filled up, water would back up in the hose and the funnel would overflow. You’d have to make sure that no point in the hose was higher than the top edge of the barrel.

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