Rain Water Harvesting on the Gold Coast
As you no doubt realise, clean and potable water remains an issue here in Southeast Queensland, especially regarding recycled water, desalinated water, and rain water tanks. All new buildings, residential and commercial, are required to be outfitted with rain water tanks for irrigation and toilet flushing.
For existing buildings it is important in the long term to create sustainable methods to conserve valuable rain water without destroying the aesthetics of your home or business. From our experience, a Rain-Return® system is the best of its kind, allowing a rain water tank to collect 100% – vs. the average of 10% – of rain water falling on your roof. To learn more, please watch the video just to the right of this text.
A Rain-Return® system harvests all the water from your storm water drains which, in turn, collect all the water from the roof. A simple underground pit pumps the water back to your storage tank. When the storage tank is full a float valve activates and the pump stops pumping and allows the water to continue through the normal storm water drain system.
Whywait Plumbing can design a system for you like those we’ve installed for Westfield Helensvale Shopping Centre, AB Paterson College, or Robina State School. With your new Rain-Return® system, you can:
- Maximise your storage capacity
- Collect 100% of rain falling on the roof plus air conditioning & roof condensation
- Reduce your water bills
- Eliminate ugly piping systems to your rain water tank
- Comply with water sustainability requirements
Rain water can now be used in urban areas for:
- Toilet flushing
Installing multiple 25000 litre rain water tanks for storing water from the rain water harvesting system at Westfield Shopping Centre, Helensvale
- Laundry cold water supply to the washing machine
- Washing & cleaning
- Washing you cars & boats
- Irrigating your gardens & lawn
And, provided certain precautions are taken into account including adherence to backflow requirements, rain water harvesting can also provide drinkable water that is free from chemicals, such as chlorine, which are used to treat our main potable water supplies.
Whywait Plumbing has been installing rain water storage systems for more than 30 years. What’s more, we are a licensed GreenPlumber™ and, as such, have been at the forefront in developing and installing urban tanks.
With a fully-installed rain water harvesting system from Whywait, you can count on:
- a complete site inspection to ensure the system recommended will work correctly
- a range of systems to choose from
- a guaranteed installation date
- installation and certification by a licensed plumber
- access to all government and council rebates
To learn more about a rain water harvesting system from Whywait Plumbing , contact us today to schedule your no-obligation site inspection.
Gold Coast & Tweed: (07) 5580 4311
