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El Niño prep: Harvest rain from your roofNovember 23, 2015 | By Johanna Silver | Comments (0)

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Santa Fe permaculture landscape designer Nate Downey knows the drill: Do a rain dance for weeks,then rejoice as it falls before cursing the flooding and erosion it causes. “My thought has alwaysbeen, How can we turn that erosion problem into a rainwater-harvesting solution?” he says. He foundthe answer in an unlikely place: the roof. With a record El Niño on the horizon, we asked him to tellus more.

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Sunset: Why should we pay attention to more than permeable paving in the landscape?

Downey: I’m all about the impermeable surfaces: roofs, patios, and driveways. But especially roofs—they’re so clean! And rain comes off of them with such force. It’s such a resource waiting tobe captured. No matter where you live in the West, there’s a rainy season. It might be winter inthe dry-summer Mediterranean sections, or monsoons in the Southwest, but everyone’s got a roof.

Sunset: What are you doing to spread the roof gospel?

Downey: I have a Roofwater Calculator on my website that allows you to type in your address andsee how much rain comes down from your roof in an average year. It’s a way to make this resourcereal, and really wake people up.

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Sunset: How do people turn their roofs into water-harvesting machines?

Downey: There are different ways. It can be an active system with a cistern and pump. Or it can bea passive one—having a downspout that leads into a trench. I fill the trench with any type of porousrock, essentially creating an underground sponge that stores water. Traditionally, pumice is used.But I prefer a more sustainable material called Growstone, a product made from recycled glass,developed in Santa Fe and manufactured in Albuquerque.

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Downey: Pitched metal roofs are better than flat tar-and-gravel ones. But really, there are not a lotof bad roofs out there.

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