Amy,
Have you ever seen Little Square Farms rain barrels before? I was doing some rain storage research on the internet and came across this company here in Columbus. They offer several seminars too.
www.littlesquarefarm.com
I also found some interesting information on the Brooklyn Botanical Garden website. There is a picture of these upside umbrella rain collection mechanisms. Maybe if we could design some type of collection mechanism and then go with a pipe into a tank instead of a barrel we could get around the need for the roof/gutters and open containers. The umbrella things are obviously on a grander scale than what we would want or could afford, but it is worth considering this type of option.
http://www.bbg.org/gar2/topics/sustainable/2005sp_rainwater_harvesting.html
Ideally the city could add a picnic shelter to the park. Then we could collect the water from that. I'm guessing if they won't fund a water connection they won't build a pavilion either.
Here is another website with a large selection of various collection barrels and storage tanks.http://www.plastic-mart.com/
I don't know how well something like this would do on it's own without a gutter feeding in to it.http://www.plastic-mart.com/class.php?item=3479
In an ideal world it would be great to develop an agreement with the nearby houses the use their gutters for rain collection and then run hoses to the garden.
Just some thoughts...
I'm going to take a look at the updated survey now.
Linda
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