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Re: rain barrels?/used laundry water

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On Thu, 23 Mar 2000 06:16:02 -0500, you wrote:

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>I use the big garbage cans made by tuffy.
>They have wheels but once they are full they will not budge.
>I plan on putting a 33 gallon under a down spout and fixing a garden
>house to a connection I will place in the bottom. this will allow gravity
>to feed the water out without me having to use buckets to move the water.
>I also would like to make a stand in the basement to place a 33 gallon
>can on to catch second rinse water to reuse in the next wash load when
>doing repeated loads of laundry.
my mother has *always* done this with her wash water.  She has a
double sinked basement sink (those big jobs) & empties the water into
one side.  There is some mechanism which uses this as the input for
the next load.  Want me to ask her?
>I used this water last year during the drought but I see a better use for
>it in this manner.
>
>
>Smitty in Connecticut zone 6
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