how Bubba would it be to use above ground pool as fresh water storage cistern?I'm looking at some houses that got "Shared Well" and I'm told that CAN be "OK" but can also be HOA tier shit fest, so I'm thinking it would be wise to hedge bets.Looks like an AGP is about 1/10th the cost of just a proper plastic Water Tank, per gallon.I'm thinking with a good cover, no reason why AGP stored water from (still functioning) well, combined with rain water from various sources, like some tarps hung from ropes hung from trees, could be used for normal tap water, with some added filtering or treatment for drinking. I got one of those counter top 1-gal distillers that does a gal in about 4 hours at 750W, and puts out bit of heat, so fine for during winter to recover heat into room.I figure an AGP could at least be used as holding tank if I need water delivered with 6000gal truck.I've never heard of anyone intentionally using a cheap AGP for household water cistern.
>>2964817Large pools are great for breeding places for algue and bacteria and viruses. There's a reason pools have filters and chlorine and so on.
>>2964820I also gotta 5lb bag "life time supply" of sodium thiosulfate, which I use to de-chlorine city water when I change water in my gold fish pond.I figure I'd keep the pool tightly (but wouldn't be Hermetic) covered (no light), and well chlorinated, filters running, then treat the water in a smaller tank with sodium thiosulfate before use.
water storage is water storage. potable water is beast, id use the stored diy system for irrigation, plants have built in filtration systems that are sized for themselfs, you can use the filtration system built by a pine tree to get decent clean water, but you kill that limb/sapling.
>>2964826seems thought out, bubbling through a protein skimmer to max gas exchange might be helpful, chlorinated pool water has that summer time smell when mixed with urine so avoid that. there was an african leader who claimed his pool was water storage for the fire department so id check how they keep water for helicopters. might be easier than you think
>>2964829>protein skimmerthanks for the tip. my very first job decades ago was in a Tropical Fish store, including salt water, but I wasn't too involved in the finer points of salties.Is that a gizmo that you just empty out the scum every so often and besides that it just runs on electric?
>>2964837DIY skimmer, but mentions skimmers not so good of for freshwater due to bubble size due to surface tension.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=223-24zhjoc
>>2964817I'm seeing lots of houses on Zillow in KY that list only "Cistern" as water, but many have comp tar-glass roofs.Do these "cisterns" get ground water run-off or WTF?I don't think they are AZ types where you truck in water, because their ain't no water.
>>2964837i think they are electric, from operational videos it creates tons of water surface area. stale water is a concern in the wild.
I think you're adding a lot of headache to save a relatively small amount of money.
>>2964817I think op should play with a 55gal drum before going full retard.
>>2964817Huge tanks are cheap if bought 2nd hand. An actual tank will outlive your pool by more than a factor of 10 so keep that in mind when calculating your cost.
>>2964817>how Bubba would it be to use above ground pool as fresh water storage cistern?I love the innocence of this.
>>2964931thx, also I'm thinking a real tank would add Equity, where as a Bubba pool wouldn't even add value of a pool, because I'd need some Bubba cover that would turn it into "junk that needs to be hauled off" in eyes of most people.
