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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Hey, everybody. It's Josh and Chuck and Jerry sitting in for Dave, and this is Short Stuff Rain Barrels. Let's go.
That's right. I feel like it's 2010.
This is a bit of a throwback, but I know very little about rain barrels, and I wanted to learn more, and I wanted everybody else to learn more, whether they liked it or not.
That's right. And my quick history of rain barrels is for a while we were collecting rainwater with the small barrels that you attach to your gutter at the edge of the house. That ended up kind of a disaster. And then at one point we moved to a huge cistern system that collected rainwater from all of our gutters leading into this one cistern. And that ended up being a nightmare.
So you've abandoned the rain barrel thing, huh?
Yeah, we're not doing rain barrels right now, but, you know, we have some other sustainable systems in place that are too boring to talk about.
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Chapter 2: What are rain barrels and how do they work?
Rainwater is naturally soft, which means it doesn't contain a lot of hard minerals. A lot of them. It contains some.
Where did they have soft water on tour? Was that Madison, Wisconsin? Yes, dude.
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Yeah. My liver has extra volume in body because of my Madison experience. That's pretty great. All right. So collecting rainwater is also good for the local ecology because rainwater not being diverted into that muni system is going to stay in the lakes and rivers, obviously, which is a great thing for the local wildlife. And if you're harvesting rainwater, you're reducing the amount of the
Rainwater runoff, which can be bad, you know, that initial dirty rainwater can be like not great for lakes and streams.
No, because your your sewers probably get directed. The rainstorm water drains get directed right to brooks, creeks, lakes, even sometimes, if you can believe it. And that stuff picks up all the oil, all the antifreeze, all the tar, all that stuff, and just takes it to those streams and brooks and lakes with it.
And also excess fertilizer, we've talked about plenty of times, that gets taken to waterways and can support algae blooms that kill off everything from other plant life to fish. So any rainwater that you're removing from the runoff, is good.
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Chapter 3: What is the history of rainwater collection?
The thing is, it's almost not even worth mentioning because you're removing such an insignificant amount that if everybody were doing this, it would have a huge impact. But you're not really going to. You can still feel good about it, though.
That's right. I think we should take a break. OK. And we're going to come right back and hopefully talk very little about math if I can talk Josh into it right after this.
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Okay, Chuck, it's time for some math.
I mean, please just say and not work your way through this equation, right?
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Chapter 4: What are the benefits of using rainwater?
Yeah. Hey, that's an option, by the way, everybody, if you're still with us. You don't have to stop listening. Just 15 seconds at a time, I think it is.
So I never make dry jokes to fool you, but I did just do math to make you squirm for sure.
Oh, I know. Okay. All right, so we need to talk roofs, though, because it depends on what kind of roof you have as to how great that water is going to be. If you've got a brand new asbestos-tarred asphalt shingled roof, you're probably not going to love that rainwater. It's not great.
Treated cedar shakes are lovely, but they are treated with stuff that you're not going to want, like arsenic, to keep them from rotting, obviously. Galvanized metal, some people say, that's probably the best thing, right? What do you say?
Probably not, because most metal roofs are treated with a protective coating that's made of PFAS. So that's going to get right into your water, too. It turns out that slate tiles, terracotta tiles or ceramic roof tiles are probably the best. They're going to contribute the least amount of extra stuff.
So you got to be rich.
Yeah, pretty much. It sounds like, unfortunately.
Yeah, those are like super expensive roofs, right?
Yes. All three of them are for sure. So, yeah. Yeah. I mean, it is true. If you think about it, you don't want to use asphalt shingles to catch rain with unless, Chuck, you have a good filter. And they definitely make those kind of things because there are some things you want to keep in mind when you're choosing a rain barrel. But one of them is you need a filter of some sort.
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Chapter 5: Why is rainwater not safe for drinking?
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Okay. The other thing you're going to want is a good lid for that thing. It's not just like an open system. If you've never seen a rain barrel, they have lids because it keeps all the debris out and the bugs out. You don't want like a small child crawling into a rain barrel because that could be very sad. Yeah, obviously.
And you want to keep sunlight out because I think you talked about the algae growth in Act one and also mosquitoes. You don't want mosquitoes laying their larvae in there.
No, you should go to jail if you're breeding mosquitoes, you know.
Chapter 6: How can rainwater be used effectively for gardening?
Yeah, we have, I love it because one of our fence walls is completely over the years now, ivy, like beautiful Wrigley Field ivy. And it looks so cool, but it is a mosquito nightmare and we're going to have to get rid of it.
Well, I'm sorry that your ivy is going to have to go away, but I don't blame you one bit. If it were a mosquito factory, I'd have to deal with that too.
Yeah, it's really bad. So what else? Oh, yeah, I did talk about filters. They make UV lights that can kill bacteria.
What about the bacteria, though?
Very nice. TouchƩ. TouchƩ, as they say.
Thanks. That's French for touch.
What else? You don't want to drink this water. I hope we've made that clear. But, you know, if you can find a way to pump it, you could wash your car with it.
You could. You can also use it to grow plants, obviously, flowers, that kind of thing. If you use it in a vegetable garden or a fruit garden, you do not want to use it within probably a week or so. I might even give myself a wider berth than that of harvesting.
because those things are going to suck it like any pollutant in that's in that rainwater, and you're going to put it right into your body. You certainly don't want to rinse the vegetables off with that. You want to rinse it off with, you want to basically put your vegetables in a bucket of just pure bleach for several days before you get them out and eat them.
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