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Downspout Diverters - with or without rain barrelsSubmitted by Bill MacDermott on March 29, 2007 - 7:42am.
............................................................................................................... Use our Save the Rain DiverterTM to channel water directly from your downspout fast and efficiently into your barrel, watering can or any water collection container. Close the diverter when your container is full and your downspout works as usual- no need to repair or restore your downspout.Our diverter fits standard residential downspouts, metal or plastic. (Preferred by customers with <3 1/2" downspouts) Easy installation: Update4/26/09 - you can find this diverter at: http://www.goodcommonsense.net/rnbrl.html
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Our downspouts have diverted themselves
The interconnect for the downspounts at my place have washed away so we're flowing right into the soil, but it is too much water in one place (not planned to handle the flow of water... need to put in a barrel or splash of some sort - but glad not to be feeding the problem of raw sewage flowing into Lake Erie.
My parents also lots all their gutter to winter ice so I'll see if I can get them to go off lne as they rebuild their water management system... is that even legal in Shaker or does code require they feed the gutters into the sewers?
Disrupt IT
another diverter splitter product
http://www.aquabarrel.com/downspouts.shtml
The Inline Downspout Diverter
The Y downspout diverter is modified with extra sections to create the inline downspout diverter. The existing downspout can remain in its current location with a rain barrel situated in front of it. (Add on sections can be placed on either side.)
Closed Rain Barrel diverter
Another great rain diverter is RainReserve. It is a kit that includes the eco friendly diverter and the necessary parts to connect to your downspout and rain barrels. The RainReserve system is a closed and UV resistant system, so it prevents mosquitoes, bugs, and algae. Also the rain diverter is designed to send debris and water overflow back out the downspout. When the rain barrel(s) are full the water goes up the tubing and back out the downspout. The RainReserve diverter also has an easy access maintenance door. Most rain diverters do not have a maintenance door, which means you would have to take off their diverter completely in order to clean it. For more information go to http://www.rainreserve.com
Tough call - Spam or OK for Realneo?
New realneo User RainReserve, who posted the plastic rain barrel diverter infomercial above, is clearly posting on Realneo with the objective of selling the product.
Does this make the comment spam?
Their commercial intent is not concealed or obscured.
The product being advertized is a variation of exactly what the original MacDermott post is about - downspout diverters to help prevent CSO's, etc.
The product is novel.
If you click through the RainReserve site, this is their purported background:
"RainReserve was developed in 2005 by Sustain Dane
, a Madison, Wis.-based non-profit organization dedicated to creating sustainable communities and promoting environmental responsibility. After seeing the overwhelming response from the local community, Sustain Dane partnered with Enginuity, LLC
, an environmentally conscious engineering and custom manufacturing company based in Hartville, Mo. to enhance, manufacture and distribute both the single- and tandem-tank RainReserve Diverter Kits."
Another internet report describes how the Sustain Dane Non-prof got started.
It appears the Non-Profit is trying to expand their effectiveness by licensing a product for commercial production.
I would let this infomercial stay up on Realneo, but I would have preferred to have heard about the product from an end user, rather than the seller.
Now that the RainReserve product is in this thread, end users can critique it.
Welcome Skyler
From their forthright profile, the user is Skyler Lyon... perhaps the first skyler to join REALNEO. Welcome Skyler, be my buddy.
History
Interests
Green Movement, Eco Friendly ideas, Rain water harvesting, Gardening, and Rain Barrels.
Personal
I am a software engineer, internet marketer and go green kind of guy. I am interested in other people that are for the planet.
Buddy List
Jeff B., note this person is a new media worker - Internet Marketer - at an engineering firm partnered with the inventor:
This looks like a great product and great background. I'm glad they found us and bothered to join the community and add their information. I hope Skyler will be active in our discussions on water management and developing the green cluster in wonderful Madison and Hartville - we need all the insight and inspiration we may find!
Disrupt IT
More Rain barrel info
I have just installed one rain barrel at my house. I am looking for more low cost barrels and low cost diverters. I ended up buying my diverters from Clean Air Gardening--I ordered on line and they arrived next day from Texas. Thanks for posting Rain Reserve. Locally, the implementation of rain barrels has been somewhat piecemeal, but well-intentioned. It is little-known, but the City of Cleveland is installing in some areas for FREE (!)--call your CDC...Old Brooklyn CDC's Lori Peterson is a good resource person 216-459-1000. She can hook any one up with a local supplier of recycled barrels (Steve Carrier) and mentioned that diverters are now manufactured locally by the Oatey Plumbing company.
Also Amy Roskilly, at Cuyahoga Soil and Water Conservation District is holding a workshop in Tremont at Lincoln Park on July 14 from 6:00-7:30 p.m. to construct and distribute rain barrels w/diverters. Cost is $60.00 wi/diverter, $20.00/barrel w/o diverter...her number is 216-524-6580 x22. More of my rain barrel musing can be found here.