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I am trying to come up with my water plan and I am stuck between two ideas:
1) Store 275 to 550 gallons of water in 55 gallon drums. Cost would be $250 for 5 drums and the needed supplies + $45 for each additional drum.
2) I have a small stream just across the road from me. I could get a couple of smallish containers to get the water from the stream to the house and then do a course filtering through some sort of filter (I'm thinking a bed sheet) and then filter through a Berkey water filter into a 55 gallon drum for storage. Cost would be $550 give or take using a Crown Berkey with 4 filters including the smaller containers and the 55 gallon drum.
My thought for getting the Crown Berkey with 4 filters as opposed to a smaller less expensive one is twofold. It will filter water at up to 13 gallons an hour and that should allow me to make a 55 gallon "batch" of water in less than a day and I live in Utah where there is a high concentration of Mormons. They are very diligent at storing food. If needed I could swap my clean drinking water for food.
Right now I am leaning towards option 2 for several reasons:
* Option 1 has a large storage footprint
* Option 1 has maintenance involved with water rotation and cleaning of the drums.
* What happens when you run out your stored water
* Option 2 eliminates the problems I listed above and would allow me to help out others and that could prove to be beneficial to my family as well
So, what are your thoughts? Am I overlooking something? Is there a better plan that would be less expensive and still have the benefits I see with option 2? Thanks for any insight!
1) Store 275 to 550 gallons of water in 55 gallon drums. Cost would be $250 for 5 drums and the needed supplies + $45 for each additional drum.
2) I have a small stream just across the road from me. I could get a couple of smallish containers to get the water from the stream to the house and then do a course filtering through some sort of filter (I'm thinking a bed sheet) and then filter through a Berkey water filter into a 55 gallon drum for storage. Cost would be $550 give or take using a Crown Berkey with 4 filters including the smaller containers and the 55 gallon drum.
My thought for getting the Crown Berkey with 4 filters as opposed to a smaller less expensive one is twofold. It will filter water at up to 13 gallons an hour and that should allow me to make a 55 gallon "batch" of water in less than a day and I live in Utah where there is a high concentration of Mormons. They are very diligent at storing food. If needed I could swap my clean drinking water for food.
Right now I am leaning towards option 2 for several reasons:
* Option 1 has a large storage footprint
* Option 1 has maintenance involved with water rotation and cleaning of the drums.
* What happens when you run out your stored water
* Option 2 eliminates the problems I listed above and would allow me to help out others and that could prove to be beneficial to my family as well
So, what are your thoughts? Am I overlooking something? Is there a better plan that would be less expensive and still have the benefits I see with option 2? Thanks for any insight!