Rainwater Harvesting Tour Coming Up!
September 25, 2022
Visit here for Tour 2022 updates and tour map!
Virtual Rain Harvesting Tour!
*NEW Video Tour Site 6
This is a self-guided tour. There are four static presentations as digital tours developed by rainwater collectors. They feature different scales, solutions and innovations in rainwater harvesting and use. Also below on the virtual tour are three videos of three different Salt Spring Island rainwater systems.
Please click below on the Tour Site you wish to view:
Some of the links contain slideshows embedded as secondary links. Others are a video or images and descriptions directly on this website. The link will open in a new tab on your browser and you can come back here to click the next tour site link when you are ready to do so.
Tour Site 1: Rainbow Road Allotment Gardens
Tour Site 2: 155 Wildwood Crescent
Tour Site 3: “Eagle Hill” on Sun Eagle Drive
Tour Site 4: West Eagle Drive
Tour site 5 was in-person for 2021 only with Sharon Bywater
Tour Site 6: Harvesting the Rain for Outdoor Use – Shannon Cowan (Videography by Rob Lowrie)
*Transition Salt Spring informal tour video: Harry Burton’s Apple Luscious Organic Orchard
Questions? Contact the coordinator to coordinate getting your questions to the appropriate tour guide or local professional for reply.
Salt Spring Island Non-Potable Rainwater Harvesting Best Practices Guide
Click the link above! This Guide features everything you need to know about selecting and calculating the appropriate rainwater harvesting system for your needs. It’s had the benefit of up to date content input from professionals and local water researchers and specialists, including:
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- Gord Baird, Eco-Sense Rainwater Harvesting Consultant
- Matt Nowell, Gulf Islands Irrigation Rainwater Harvesting Consultant
- Sandra Ungerson, AloPluvia.com Integrated Water Resource Management Consultant
- Salt Spring Island Watershed Protection Alliance members
- Salt Spring Island Water Preservation Society
- Other Water Conservation, Watershed Protection, Rainwater System Resources:
- Transition Salt Spring Rainwater Rebates and the Climate Coach program
- Transition Salt Spring TSSEC Loans program
- Rainwater Harvesting Brochure
- Freshwater Ecosystems Webinar – Transition Salt Spring, spring 2021
- How to Plan your Rainwater System – Transition Salt Spring Webinar Recording – fall 2021
Thank you to the Virtual Rain Tour Partners, including:
Rainbow Road Allotment Gardens Group
Chris Dixon
Bruce Eggertson
Moe and Tali Wendt and their farm family
Sharon and Gary Bywater
Transition Salt Spring and Harry Burton
Fernando and Tami dos Santos
Shannon Cowan
SSIWPA appreciates the hosts, Sharon Bywater, Suzanne Chamney, previous tour coordinators, the SSI Water Council, and the SSI Water Preservation Society.