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Residential RWH Costs

A quick, inexpensive, do-it-yourself, daisy-chained rain barrel system for your home can provide early summer water for your landscaping and give you a lot of satisfaction for as little as $200.  Utilize your water budget information to determine your real storage needs.  Try to match them as closely as possible.  We encourage the creative use of recycled materials when possible.

More complex systems including large storage capacity or underground tanks have a larger price tag attached.  Maximizing RWH potential in an existing or new home or multi-unit building by integrating stormwater capture and graywater reuse will increase project costs.  But the environmental and health benefits and personal satisfaction derived from using a RWH system provide real value, which must not be left out of the calculation.  Costs for a typical residential RWH system with above-ground storage generally run from $2-5 per gallon of capacity for irrigation use and $5-8 per gallon for toilet and laundry use.  Larger tanks result in slightly lower per gallon costs.

Visit our service providers and products pages to find an experienced and accredited designer that has the expertise to design and install a system for you.

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