Send her down, hughie!

How you can tell when there has been good rain in the west, from the Betoota Advocate. [smilebigeye]

Blind Drunk Brickies Punching On Outside Pub At 1PM Fair Indication We've Had Some Good Rain — The Betoota Advocate

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Originally Posted by trout1105

Connecting the tanks at the bottom wasn't an option for me as there is about a 300mm drop form the first tank to the last one, It also leaves the valve at the bottom of the tank free and easy to access for draining/cleaning.
I also removed the centre bung from the top hatch on the tanks so they are able to "vent" when filling to allow for a faster fill, We don't get "Cyclonic" downpours here more is the pity.
I also covered up the holes with mossie mesh to stop the little blighters getting into the tanks.
Its a project in progress and I will revisit this thread after the first rains to update it [thumbsupbig]

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That's good. Have you tried using some water clarifier in the tanks to maintain good quality? I treated one of our tanks today.

we got 20mm in 24hrs @ home

it ****ed down at Jacobs Well, but unsure how much fell...more than home.

At last , we had heavy rain all night , not sure how much but the pool which I was thinking of toping up yesterday is now almost over flowing , would have come up a good 6 to 8 inches.:banana: Guess I will have to pump some out if we are going to get some more , don't want he salt water over flowing into the garden. We got our water a/c yesterday $500 at least now the tanks are full I can top the pool from them instead of the tap. We have been loosing 50mm a week through evaporation so having to top up every couple of weeks.

73.92 mm here to 0830. Dam has come up about a foot (good catchment), top shed tank @ 22,700 l, two house tanks @ 22,700 l ea. and granny flat tank @ 6,500 l are just overflowing and both 22,700 l tanks off the bottom shed at around four fifths full.[bigrolf]

Without being too greedy, another 200-300 mm would be good for the dam.

I just found a empty bucket I had left in the middle of the back yard couple of days ago , well it was empty but with the rain ove night it had over flowed.[biggrin]

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73.92 mm here to 0830. Dam has come up about a foot (good catchment), top shed tank @ 22,700 l, two house tanks @ 22,700 l ea. and granny flat tank @ 6,500 l are just overflowing and both 22,700 l tanks off the bottom shed at around four fifths full.[bigrolf]

Without being too greedy, another 200-300 mm would be good for the dam.

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So if you get a metear and 300mm is flowing over the spillway due to inflow, is not the damn a percentage overfull?[bighmmm]

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So if you get a metear and 300mm is flowing over the spillway due to inflow, is not the damn a percentage overfull?[bighmmm]

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If my taynk is 22,700 leeterz and there's water entering via the downpipe and exiting the overflow, it can still only hold the 5,000 gals.:ohyes:

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Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

we got 20mm in 24hrs @ home

it ****ed down at Jacobs Well, but unsure how much fell...more than home.

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went back there this morning......some claim to have received 250mm

I pumped about 150mm of water out of the pool on Sunday to make room for the predicted rain , hasn't rained since [bigsad]