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9 results in 'Landscape Architecture Harvest Notes'
Source: Landscape_Architecute_Rainwater_Harvesting.pdf

    Landscape Architecture Harvest Notes

    • Rainwater harvesting: An Ancient Tech - Cisterns in Landscape Architecture by Daniel Winterbottom; April 2000

    • used historically by Meso-Americans, Romans, Middle East

    • older civilizations had larger cisterns, 2 million gallons below Jerusalem, 200k liter at Church of Santo Domingo in Oaxaca

    • Today in Bermuda and USVI rainwater harvesting is required, tax credits in some places,

    • Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center near Austin, 300k gallons per year collected and used,

    • best roof material for catching water from is stainless steel/galvanized

    • leave water in a concrete cistern to prevent it from drying out and cracking

    • wooden cisterns were common on building tops, can be very durable, made with redwood or cypress

    • $1 per 1 gallon, circa 2000, for a water harvesting system

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