Extension, Boone team installs water-saving cistern
Eric Gustaveson and Andrea Gimlin demonstrate the relative size of a recently installed 5,000-gallon water-saving cistern.
Photo by Art Latham
In July, a large cistern, pipes and related gutters were installed in Boone by a team led by Jason Wright of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, N.C. State University. Wright is an Extension associate with the storm-water team in the College’s Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering. Wendy Patoprsty, North Carolina Cooperative Extension natural resources agent, helped choose the site.
“The Town of Boone actively supports water conservation and recycling,” says Andrea Gimlin, water conservation program coordinator with Boone’s Every Drop Counts program. “Our water conservation education program supports our philosophy of managing the environment in a manner that does not despoil, exhaust or extinguish water, our natural resource.”
Water stored in the cistern, which first flows from a 2,800-square-foot town maintenance building roof, is used for street and vehicle washing and for street salting, says Eric Gustaveson, who is facilities maintenance superintendent for the Town of Boone’s parks and its Greenway Trail.
The project includes water-harvesting installations at four sites across the state, including large cisterns already in place at Fayetteville Technical Community College Horticultural Center in Cumberland County, the Craven County Animal Shelter and the Guilford County Agricultural Center.
—Art Latham
“The Town of Boone actively supports water conservation and recycling,” says Andrea Gimlin, water conservation program coordinator with Boone’s Every Drop Counts program. “Our water conservation education program supports our philosophy of managing the environment in a manner that does not despoil, exhaust or extinguish water, our natural resource.”
Water stored in the cistern, which first flows from a 2,800-square-foot town maintenance building roof, is used for street and vehicle washing and for street salting, says Eric Gustaveson, who is facilities maintenance superintendent for the Town of Boone’s parks and its Greenway Trail.
The project includes water-harvesting installations at four sites across the state, including large cisterns already in place at Fayetteville Technical Community College Horticultural Center in Cumberland County, the Craven County Animal Shelter and the Guilford County Agricultural Center.
—Art Latham