Water conservation and distribution system

• US 7,661,904 B2
• Filed: 05/13/2008
• Issued: 02/16/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/13/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Salvatore Maggiacomo
• Original Assignee: Salvatore Maggiacomo
• Inventors: Maggiacomo, Salvatore
• Primary Examiner(s): Singh; Sunil
• Application Number:
  US12/152,237
• Publication Number:
  US 20090285632A1
• Time in Patent Office: 644 Days
• Field of Search: 405/36, 405 38- 41, 405 43- 45, 405/49, 405 51- 53, 405/55, 521/695
• US Class Current: 405/43
• CPC Class Codes: E03F 1/002 with disposal into the ground, e.g. via dry wells

Abstract

Rainwater collected from roof gutters is poured into the vertical portion of an “ell” shaped perforated drainage pipe. The horizontal leaching pipe portion of the drainage pipe discharges the rainwater into a catch basin. Water from the catch basin flows into another perforated leaching pipe that is set in the bottom of a trench. In turn, the lower part of the trench is filled with crushed rock to a height of about three quarters of the trench depth. A water impermeable barrier of asphalt shingles or thirty pound asphalt roofing felt is placed over the top of the crushed rock and the balance of the trench is filled with soil up to the ground level.

Claims

1. A waste conservation and soil irrigation system comprising a building having a rain downspout, a perforated inflow pipe fluidly coupled to the rain downspout and a catch basin fluidly coupled to the perforated inflow pipe and a perforated outflow pipe fluidly coupled to the catch basin, a trench having a bottom being formed in the soil, the perforated inflow pipe being at the bottom of said trench, the catch basin having a solid bottom, the catch basin being located between the perforated inflow pipe and the perforated outflow pipe and the catch basin coupling the perforated inflow pipe and the perforated outflow pipe, the perforated outflow pipe also being located at the bottom of the trench, crushed rock partly filling said trench, said crushed rock at least covering said perforated inflow pipe and said outflow pipe, a water impermeable barrier over said crushed rock, and soil over said barrier and filling the balance of said trench.

2. A system according to claim 1 wherein said crushed rock fills about three quarters of the depth of said trench.

3. A system according to claim 1 wherein said impermeable barrier further comprises asphalt shingles.

4. A system according to claim 1 wherein said impermeable barrier further comprises asphalt roofing felt.

5. A system according to claim 4 wherein said trench is about sixteen inches wide.

6. A system according to claim 1 wherein said trench is about one foot deep.

7. A system according to claim 1 further comprising the inflow perforated pipe and the outflow perforated pipe each having a bottom, with the bottom of each pipe being in direct contact with the bottom of the trench, with the crushed stone being located above the bottom of each perforated pipe.

8. A system according to claim 7 wherein said catch basin is about eighteen inches long, about sixteen inches wide and about eighteen inches in height.

9. A system according to claim 7 further comprising an ell on the inflow perforated pipe for establishing said fluid communication between the inflow perforated pipe and said catch basin.

10. A system according to claim 7 wherein said catch basin further comprises a movable covering over said catch basin.

11. A system according to claim 7 further comprising a vertical drainable pipe portion in fluid communication with said perforated inflow pipe and a leaching pipe inspection and maintenance portion intersecting said vertical drainable pipe portion.

12. A system according to claim 1 where said crushed rock further comprises aggregate.