Looking for 75-gallon rain barrel (Garner: Home Depot, landscaping, fencing)

[don6170]

To meet Wake County's Impervious Surface requirements, I need to get two 75-gallon rain barrels to locate at my newly built garage. Does anyone know a local garden center that has nice, decorative barrels? I found a really nice one on-line, but it is no longer available, even directly from the manufacturer. I can find plenty of decorative ones locally, but not in a 75-gallon size. Likewise, I can find lots of 75-gallon plastic tanks, etc, but nothing that looks nice. Most of the local garden shops don't have their inventory on-line, so I was hoping for a recommendation before I start calling.

[919 rtp]

I don't know of a place with 75-gallon rain decorative barrels, but could you use fencing or landscaping (like sky pencil holly) to hide the containers?

[BoBromhal]

perhaps a photo of what you liked that was decorative would help. Have you called the large nurseries?

[ucctgg]

Agri-Supply in Garner has 58 gallon.

[Buxton Bagpipes]

Use three 50 gallon barrels?

[MikeJaquish]

Cheap and 100 Gallon. Bring your own decor.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/50-66-100-G...r=502745253939



Ouch. My wallet just grunted and it is not involved.
But, it is sort of pretty...

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Algreen-Athena-80-Gal-Brownstone-Rain-Barrel-86311/206704054

[don6170]

Originally Posted by ucctgg

Agri-Supply in Garner has 58 gallon.

Originally Posted by Buxton Bagpipes

Use three 50 gallon barrels?

I have to have at least 137.1 gallons of capacity. The garage has two downspouts, so I was looking to put one 75-gallon barrel on each.

This is the one I found on-line. It was available at HD and Amazon, but now the manufacture shows it was unavailable.
https://www.koolatron.com/US/en/75-g...ok-rain-barrel

[JONOV]

Originally Posted by don6170

I have to have at least 137.1 gallons of capacity. The garage has two downspouts, so I was looking to put one 75-gallon barrel on each.

This is the one I found on-line. It was available at HD and Amazon, but now the manufacture shows it was unavailable.
https://www.koolatron.com/US/en/75-g...ok-rain-barrel

Can you bury one? Have the gutter downspout into the barrel, have the barrel drain out french drain style.

Or have a couple of these put in with it. https://oldcastleinfrastructure.com/...tration-cubes/ You would need three. But if you're site prepping for a garage, easy enough to dig a roughly 7 foot trench three feet deep.

Or, have a smaller rain barrel that drains into a buried one on each downspout. Also look at the home depot version you can bury https://www.homedepot.com/p/NDS-40-G...AS24/100377387 If you installed one of those on either end you can use a much smaller rain barrel.

[danielbmartin]

No need to bury anything. Place two 55-gallon barrels side by side. Arrange the downspout to feed into either one.

Connect a short section of hose to the side of each barrel, near the bottoms. The two barrels will always hold water at the same level.
... or ...
Connect a short section of hose to the side of each barrel, near the tops. When one barrel is full additional water will spill over into the second one.

Set up one of these "paired" barrels at each of your two downspouts. Total capacity = 220 gallons.


Daniel B. Martin

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[don6170]

Looks like I am going to have to go with a "standard" rain barrel. I called several garden shops, and also stopped by Logan's and Market Imports at the Farmer's Market. None had anything decorative.