What Plans Have You Made for Water

1 scs to 100 water

The 35% is inert.

 

You first make a stock clorine solution. Then you use the SCS to disinfect your drinking water.

jo007athome wrote: I hope it's the right stuff as it says 65% calcium hypochlorite and 35% other. It doesnt say algeacides tho.

pugmom wrote: we're on community water tank--22,000 gallons that supplies about 30 users.  Also have a 1,500 gallon holding tank on our property.  Our holding tank works on gravity, so we are set.

That's 733 gallons per person. Do your neighbors have a good concept of water conservation? Is the tank always full?
    

HoosierMom wrote: Has anyone ordered calcium hypoch. online, is this a chemical that can legally be shipped?  Sorry if this is a stupid question..[IMG]height=17 alt="Stern Smile" src="http://avianflutalk.com/smileys/smiley22.gif" width=17 align=absMiddle>

Not a stupid question!

I bought mine at the local spa dealer. It can probably only be shipped via UPS ground.

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We have the old fashion spring feed well with a hand pump.

My concerns are that the surface water that sometimes runs into the well when we have a big "toad stranger" rain will bring in the virus.

So I plan to boil the water to be sure we are not consuming anything bad.

Springs are all over our farm so we are very blessed with water.  We also have one pond and a lake to get water from if needed.

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Deanna wrote: [QUOTE=BoJingles] I plan on raiding my neighbors homes for water. Okay, just kidding! I really dont think we will have a water crisis. Im sure states will mandate that utility workers show up for work. They will be the front lines along with medical workers to receive protective equipment and viral shots. I would be more concerned with power lines going down during the winter months from ice or storms. You could be without power and heat for days.

 

I have my preps in the basement and run a dehumidifier near the prep shelves.  Every day I empty out 1-2 gallons from the holding tank of the dehumidifier.  Now the electricity would have to be on for this to work but I was thinking that a dehumidifier might be a good source for water.

 Problem is I don't know if the water from the dehumidifier would be pure.  

Don't forget to fill the washing machine.  Check bath tub drain plugs now to be sure the seal will hold water long term.

  Well everybody,I ifinally got my manual well installed Sat.  I went out today to test the well, had to wait a couple of days for the conrete slab to dry arounf it.  Guess what I need to take weight lifting classes, no kidding.  We will be in serious trouble if I don't develop the strength to pump this thing if my husband gets sick.  So off to the gym I go.  I'm hope it gets easier as it gets broken in.  Still glad to have it.  At least it looks good.  I like the color it hunter green.

Researching ways to get water up from a well when power is off, I found the following quotes on this forum.  (I am not sure where all come from but I think at least some is from the solar thread--there is a lot  good information there.)   If your well is a deep well: "found a company that makes a stainless steel hand pumped unit that can be installed next to your regular well casing and will pump water from as far down as 300 feet...even can pump up the pressure in you regular tank so the water will come out the faucets in your house...I was amazed but its expensive...almost 900 dollars http://www.survivalunlimited.com/waterpumps.htm look at the deep well units............this could mean life or death for someone who has only an electric powered well" "A hand pump is good for maybe 25 feet. If you water level is deeper than that, then you need a well bucket. No, not the old time wooden bucket, but a long slender metal bucket. You will need to build a rack over the top of the well to hang a pulley. Run rope from bucket thru pulley and you can lower bucket down to water, let it fill, pull up to above ground. There is a finger ring on top of the bucket you pull to release water into a container." " have heard of the SolarJack pumps that are often used in remote off-grid locations for irrigation or watering lifestock. It's a battery-powered electric pump, the battery is recharged by a solar cell."

Hi brianages........Thank you so much for the information.  I am going to look into it.  Sorry about your neck. How did you break it?

I order from zepherhills,  seven 5 gallon bottles per month, plus 2 cases of bottled water per month.

Don't have enough, that's for sure. I have the cutie water guy leave a few extra five gallon bottles when he comes, but it's hard to store. I'm going to have to buy some of those collapsable containers to fill at the last minute. Anyone know about them? Any info would be appreciated.   

That I am not totally sure about. If it was me I probably would drink it if it was an emergency, but I would boil and put household bleach to make sure before drinking. Kids swallow pool water and it doesn't make them sick (no kids have ever gotten sick at my pool), and my outdoor cats prefer drinking out of the pool (even though they have bowls of water on the porch) and it doen't make them sick. So I am not sure.

Annie, the shock sold at Walmart DOES have additives, that was one of the places I checked in addition to the pool store and KMart and Atwoods. Unless your Walmart sells something different than the two Walmarts here that I have checked at, usually they sell the same thing.

This is from Illinois...  so much differing info.

I have 6 x 55 gal barrels, and a 350 gal hot tub which is sanitized with hydrogen peroxide 35%. I would still filter this through the Berkley before drinking. My biggest concern is having to hunt for water.  It does rain here, but so far about 2 inches in the last 6 months.

Hello Penham,

Pool water may be ok to drink depending on what you are using to sanitize it with. If you are using plain calcium hypochlorite (shock) with no additives, then it would be ok to drink, this is the same ingredient as bleach (which also can be used to sanitize your drinking water). Now, we have an inground pool and do use chlorine tabs and shock but both have additives such as algecide in it so we would not be using ours for drinking but for bathing, cleaning and flushing. You can buy the plain shock, but I have only seen it in large buckets for over $70, although I understand it is available, I myself have not been able to find it at pool stores except in huge amounts. All the small packets I have seen have the additives in them. Our pool store recommends using the plain shock on tile pools only, no vinyl pools, I did ask because I considered buying that type shock instead of the kind we use, but was told our pool was not deep enough at 5-1/2 feet. I don't know if leaving the water in the sun sanitizes it? All I know is if the pool is not filtered for at least 8 hours a day with chlorine after 2 days it starts getting cloudy (I tested that this week just to see) after that it starts getting really gross. So I know if the electricity goes out then that water source won't last long except for flushing, without taking it out and sanitizing it again. It might go a little longer in cold weather, but then you have to worry about the pipes freezing up with no electricity. We usually keep our pool open year round (heater) but may shut it down this winter in case the electricity goes out. I also plan on collecting rain water, but not counting on this because we went for 5 months without rain earlier in the year and part of last year. I did buy a tarp and have plastic table cloths to somehow rig to capture water into buckets for drinking. Would only use roof runoff for bathing, cleaning since the roof is not clean. Will also wait 5 or 10 minutes before collecting the drinking part of the water to make sure it has less pollution, pollen, etc. in it. The first part of the rain collection will also be for cleaning and flushing.