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Wow - not too shabby! May I ask your area? Sounds like a place with
a real winter. I am in So. Cal coastal...usually not much winter.

I assume you had to pick them up?

Persephone


I was in the nw corner of Montana, Purcell Mtns, alt.5,700. It was very hot
during the day in the summer and very long, cold winters. I made two trips
getting the tanks home. One just fit in the bed of the pick-up. Had good
grunt labor (my hunting buddies) waiting to unload and reposition the tanks.
They weighed a couple hundred pounds each. I used a solar powered stock tank
pump when I used the water. I had one tank collecting water off 'the shed'
which was an old barn/garage building and one collected from the house. We
didn't get much rain in the summer but when we did it would really pour and
filled the tanks in a very short time but there was a lot of roof surface
collecting water. In all the time I was there I only used the well to water
my gardens a very few times. However I didn't use a sprinkler, it just
wastes too much water. I also didn't water grass. All of my veggie beds
where raised and the I covered the soil with black plastic and planted
through it. That and keeping the gardens well supplied with compost every
spring they really didn't need as much water as most. I also buried gallon
milk jugs with a hole punched in the bottom next to tomatoes, peppers and
squash so I watered deep and less often. The roots stayed deep and water
didn't evaporate.

I just used a fiberglass patch kit from the hardware store. It wasn't pretty
but worked well

Google 'fiberglass septic tank' and you'll see lots of places. I'm sure
you'll find one near you if you decide to check this out.

Val