Virginia High School Catches 280,000 Gallons of Rainwater Annually
July 20, 2008 · Print This Article
While many of us have yet to even install rainwater barrels outside our homes, some people are saving a dramatic amount of water with giant barrels placed outside public buildings like schools and office buildings. The Langston Brown Community Center and High School in Arlington, Virginia has two 24-ft tall 11,000-gallon cisterns to catch and store rainwater, which capture up to 280,000 gallons per year. One tank is located at the back of the school and the other is in front, covered with panels to make it blend in seamlessly with the building.
Schools are such a great place to deploy this kind of green technology. It teaches the kids early on never to let resources go to waste, and makes it such a normal everyday thing that they will hopefully grow up to use these resource-saving measures in their daily lives without question. Way to go, Langston Brown!
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So what do they do with the water? There are a lot of things they COULD do with it but you don’t really give us any information. Perhaps including something beyond a brief factoid would enrich this post.
Its good news though, I hope they aren’t just dumping it into rock creek or the Potomac.