This year be prepared for the rainy season by cleaning out your gutters and ditches. When cleaning your gutters, make sure if you have a bypass for rainwater to go when not collected, that you direct all the excess from cleaning the gutters down that bypass instead of into your rainwater collection tank. While you are up there, inspect your gutters for clogs in the drain area, cracks in the gutter and fix any leaf guards that might have been damaged over the season. This will ensure that you have easy flow of rainwater and less contaminants going to your rainwater tank.
Cleaning ditches can be very dirty work, but its necessary to prevent mosquitoes and yellow jackets from flourishing in stagnant water, overflow from slow flow rate, and erosion from blockage of water.
Simple measures can be taken in order to have an easy clean flowing winter.
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