calculating rainwater runoff

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calculating rainwater runoff

Just how much rain do you get and how much can you collect?

Using a very easy method, just remember that for every 100 sq. ft. (that’s a 10 x 10 area) you could collect 62 gallons in 1 inch of rainfall.

Who lives in a 10’x10′ house?(A modest 25’x40′ house (1,000 sq.ft.) would produce 620 gallons. That’s alot of water! What if you only have one rain barrel? Have you thought about all the rain that is going to waste? Is your barrel just going to overflow? Perhaps you have a sufficient overflow on your barrel so that it can keep up with all the rain coming in-or do you?

By sgear|2016-12-12T06:29:47+00:00December 17th, 2010|design ideas, diverters etc, how-to, sustainable design|0 Comments

About the Author: sgear

Scott is a landscape designer who's philosophy has always centered around living closer to nature. Since 2000, his designs have reflected this and increasingly he has become obsessed with designing creative ways to save water in landscapes. As a designer, the focus of enhancing both form and function have led to this inevitable conclusion: something has to be done to make water conservation more attractive. That something, he believes, is integrating its storage into every possible landscape element, and that is what he and his wife Emily are doing at Second Rain.