Rainwater Catchment from a High Tunnel for Irrigation Use

January 2012

Shawn Shouse and Linda Naeve, Iowa State University Extension PM 3017

This seven-page fact sheet describes a system to catch, store and reuse rainwater for irrigation in high tunnels. It resulted from a Leopold Center Ecology Grant (E2011-14). Watch a video about this project.

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This page was found at http://www.leopold.iastate.edu/pubs-and-papers/2012-01-rainwater-catchment-high-tunnel-irrigation-use on 01/20/2013