Water Restrictions in WA

shaker · **Joined:** Thu Aug 05, 2010 11:05 pm **Posts:** 15

Hi All

Damn just announced that additional Water restrictions to apply in spring. 1 day a week is allowed from Oct 1 until end of November. That sucks for most gardens I imagine

Simo · **Posted:** Thu Sep 23, 2010 2:43 pm

Yep, I'm on tank water so the restrictions don't apply to me, but I will need to enforce my own water restrictions this year as it has not rained enough to fill both my tanks, in a normal year I can capture 360,000L, so far this yaer I have ~ 160,000L :bad:

which is just enough for the house hold needs, so its good bye lawn and see ya next winter to the vegie garden :swear:

shaker · **Joined:** Thu Aug 05, 2010 11:05 pm **Posts:** 15

Yeah i guess its AP only year

dufflight · **Posted:** Thu Sep 23, 2010 8:34 pm

If you have a tank just undo the meter and fill the tank up every couple of weeks.

Simo, any water underground in your area.

Big_Dave · **Posted:** Thu Sep 23, 2010 10:19 pm

In my opinion it should almost be law for everyone to capture their own rain water to supplement mains water. There should be bigger rebate's for people willing to install rainwater systems.

I live in the NT as most of you know and we cop up to 2 meters of rainfall in about 4-5 months, and hardy anyone up here collects the stuff-------Me included!!!!!
Once I can afford it I'll definetly be installing Guttering and Larger Tanks. I have my own bore into a 2500Lt Tank, I want to install at least a 25,000Lt Rainwater tank to help through the Dry Season.

dufflight · **Posted:** Fri Sep 24, 2010 9:09 am

Out here any tank 10000ltr and larger have to go through council so they can get a cut.

Simo · **Posted:** Fri Sep 24, 2010 11:52 am

dufflight wrote:

If you have a tank just undo the meter and fill the tank up every couple of weeks.

Simo, any water underground in your area.

Hi Duff,

No scheme water here as I sit higher than the weir which holds a lot of perths water, if I want scheme water I can get it trucked in form down the hill at $100 for 10,000L.

A bore has been sunk on the property but is not used as it is very slow draw and too salty for vegies or lawn, would be ok for most natives but I have found that our all native house garden does not need water once established (got to love plants suited to your climate and soils)

BOM still recon Perth will have a wetter than average spring, so fingers crossed.

shaker · **Joined:** Thu Aug 05, 2010 11:05 pm **Posts:** 15

Well I have just read that Bore users can still water 3 days per week.
I share my submersible bore with 2 other neighbours so i guess I will be ok.

I also would love to capture rainwater. maybe after my main Ap is finished i can look at that

earthbound · **Posted:** Sun Sep 26, 2010 3:39 pm

Last year I turned on my bore perhaps 6-8 times, the summer before I watered only twice. Yeah my lawn died back and some of the trees weren't the happiest but the lawn came back in the spring and the trees are happy again.. Citrus are a good water indicator I found, when the orange tree started to curl it's leaves it's time to water.

Burnsy · **Posted:** Sun Oct 03, 2010 11:43 pm

Simo wrote:

Yep, I'm on tank water so the restrictions don't apply to me, but I will need to enforce my own water restrictions this year as it has not rained enough to fill both my tanks, in a normal year I can capture 360,000L, so far this yaer I have ~ 160,000L :bad:

which is just enough for the house hold needs, so its good bye lawn and see ya next winter to the vegie garden :swear:

Simo, redirect all your grey water into your wicking beds and you will have more than enough water.

I am lucky enough to have an ATU sewerage system and my citrus and vegie garden love me for it - just don't tell the local authority :bash:

Simo · **Posted:** Mon Oct 04, 2010 12:32 pm

Burnsy wrote:

Simo wrote:

Yep, I'm on tank water so the restrictions don't apply to me, but I will need to enforce my own water restrictions this year as it has not rained enough to fill both my tanks, in a normal year I can capture 360,000L, so far this yaer I have ~ 160,000L :bad:

which is just enough for the house hold needs, so its good bye lawn and see ya next winter to the vegie garden :swear:

Simo, redirect all your grey water into your wicking beds and you will have more than enough water.

I am lucky enough to have an ATU sewerage system and my citrus and vegie garden love me for it - just don't tell the local authority :bash:

I'd love to Burnsey but my house has 3 meter concrete verander apron on all 4 sides with no external pumbing, the only piece of waste water pipe that exits the concrete slab is a below ground 100mm pipe that goes straight into the septic, and grey and black water has already been mixed by this stage.

We currently use the bath bucket method of grey water recycling and it is amazing how many plants can be kept alive over winter just from the kids bath water, buckets in the shower and the water from washing hands in the kithen sink.

dufflight · **Posted:** Wed Oct 06, 2010 12:11 pm

I have a double sink in the kitchen. One works normal but the other drains straight outside into the chook pen.

earthbound · **Posted:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 7:05 pm

Just looking worse and worse here in W.A. for water this year, here's the scary bar graphs. http://www.watercorporation.com.au/R/rainfall.cfm

Lower than average rainfall for autumn.
Less than half our average winter rainfall.
Less than two months to go till summer and spring rainfall is very low, with nothing on the horizon yet...

If we don;t get some major rain in the next 2 months, we will end up with only just over half our average rainfall for the year.. And the population and industry has been increasing..

Faye is off to a meeting tomorrow, the water corp is having everyone from the horticultural society come to a special breakfast so that they can talk about the water problems.

Food&Fish · **Posted:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 7:37 pm

Is there underground water where you are

earthbound · **Posted:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 7:49 pm

Yeah, but we have been drawing on that for many years already..

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