Golden Eagle Landscaping installed its first active rainwater harvesting system in 2001.
Rainwater harvesting is a low technology solution to increasing demands on a diminishing resource. Once used in this area by European settlers who did not have the technology we have today to drill deep wells through layers of rock, these settlers built cisterns, and diverted rainwater from barns, sheds, and houses into them for a fresh water supply.
For current pioneers and settlers to the area, rainwater harvesting offers a dependable and gold standard source of potable water. Members of our community have chosen rainwater harvesting as their sole source of potable water, instead of drilling a well. Systems today feature well built cisterns of polyethelene, fiberglass, concrete or steel, pumps, pressure tanks, first flush devices, ultraviolet sterilization and different types of filtering systems.
Rainwater harvesting offers several side benefits, it eliminates hard water build up in hot water heaters, eliminates lime build up and hard water deposit buildups. Rainwater is softer, and does not require the use of or addition of any chemicals for treatment. The water that you drink is essentially distilled. |
