A woman learning to live in the hollow; with
somewhat hilarious results.
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
365: 2 & 3
The view from the water catch.
It only takes one leaf to stop the flow of water to the cistern. Today, however, the water in the feed line was frozen. Water splatter made icicles all around the catch pool; beautiful, but slightly treacherous.
The feed from the catch will always freeze as there is no way to dig it in. It's just a 1" pipe laying on the rocky ridge. Then the line from the old cistern to the new one is above ground as well. What keeps the water flowing is that from the new, giant cistern, the feed line is buried. Yay!! Still, one single leaf can muck up the entire system. hah.
Wow, you really hiked up there! I thought that thing wasn't supposed to freeze up anymore.
ReplyDeleteThe feed from the catch will always freeze as there is no way to dig it in. It's just a 1" pipe laying on the rocky ridge. Then the line from the old cistern to the new one is above ground as well. What keeps the water flowing is that from the new, giant cistern, the feed line is buried. Yay!! Still, one single leaf can muck up the entire system. hah.
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