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Yesterday our heifers, though they may not have noticed, enjoyed genuine locally produced water - fresh from our new Rain Water Harvesting System. As you know as part of our roof-over-the silage-pit-project, we have captured some of the water that runs off, and it is directed to and stored in a storage tank. So far this has only been used for mixing cement, but yesterday the plumbing was completed and the new supply "switched on" for the heifers in the New Building. (This is of course the original New Building bought secondhand in 1965, not the purpose built pens "across the yard", or the newer building over the silage pit).
The water's not exactly free - about £300 for storage tank and pipework, not to mention the not inconsiderable cost of the building of the roof, but it's a first step away from the clutches of United Utilities.
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