[Greenbuilding] Fwd: re: Grain Bin as Water Storage

[Robert Tom]

I was wondering why this message that I sent before quitting last night  
hadn't appeared yet and just noticed now that it was sent from the wrong  
account. D'oh!
Moral of the story: Go to bed earlier.


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To: greenbuilding at listserv.repp.org
Subject: [Greenbuilding] re: Grain Bin as Water Storage
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 02:38:53 -0400

the pesky Mike wrote:

> corrugated grain bin with a pond liner
> perform a structural analysis on the tank to see if it'll hold water

The steel cable tension rings that are used to restrain the staves of
concrete silos would certainly do the job of making up for any
deficiencies in the standard grain bin arrangement.

But since you're buying a pond liner anyway, it would seem that simply
digging a hole in the ground (aka "pond") would be a lot cheaper and
simpler than casting a concrete pad foundation and then buying a grain bin
to sit on it.

And the pond would then be able to do triple duty as a swimming hole for
humans and critters, a skating rink in winter and of course, the reservoir.

And then you could use Bentonite clay for the pond liner and forgo the
plast-echh! altogether.



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