Rainwater collection and storage

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@BlueBerry

The couple of food grade ones i have were optionally clean or not clean. We spent the extra money to get them clean. Think there was a $20 difference.

Ibc totes for garden rain water collection

It’s past time we do a detailed topic about using ibc totes to collect rainwater. Up front I should tell you if you don’t want algae in your water make sure you paint the tank black. Why do I care you might ask and the reason is blue green algae can be very toxic. OK before I go on I should say if your buying used make sure they are food grade plastic and the tanks are pressure washed out before use. You never know what was in that tank. All that said here is an ibc tote from this websit…

Ibc totes for garden rain water collection

If you’ll just be using them for watering plants, I would think it would be enough. I use pool liner (like from and above-ground pool) which is translucent, and it keeps the algae much lower than with no liner. Basically it just gets a little bit of algae stuck to the walls, but not enough to clog up the nozzle or pipes. If you’ll be drinking it though, I don’t know.