Water Catchment Tank setback to house

[marksavoid]

According to Hawaii County Code 25-4-43 ©, there is no limit as to how close a water tank can be to the house. Is this correct? Does anyone know for sure?

[wyatt]

Can't remember who told us but we were told 5'
was what we were told. Ours is 5' from back door.

Wyatt

[Rob Tucker]

5' minimum from the house is for septic. The catchment tank can be in the house or part of the house if you want it there.

[Kelena]

My catchment tank goes right up to the perimeter of my house (it is below the plane of the floor of the house). Another place I looked at (John will recall!) had the catchment tank (actually two) under the house. Both are nice arrangments aesthetically but the fire department likes you to have the catchment well away from the structures you want protected. With the house that had the catchment beneath it, that would certainly make it more challenging for the fire department to help you if there is no hydrant nearby.

[wyatt]

I stand corrected and do now remember, as when we were building our friends catchment was built into there house.

Wyatt

[Hotzcatz]

I had a client once who wanted to put the water catchment on TOP of a two story house. We played with a calculator for a bit with just rough numbers - eight pounds a gallon for water, times fifteen hundred gallons - ACK! That was about as far as that idea went. Didn't even have to figure out how to get the water up there, either, since they were also off power and would have had to pump the stuff up there.

[hookupu]

Just remember that if or when your tank blows out someday that 1500 to 10,000 of water has to go somewhere. Do you really want it rushing into the house. I saw the results of a blowout once. One minute the tank was normal and two minutes later the tank was destroyed. There was no indications that there was anything wrong with the tank no rust, no leaks. It just blew out into a pile of twisted metal and 10,000 gal of water covered the back yard, luckily they had a big puka and a lava tube right next to the tank and most of the water want into it.

[Royall]

Larry, was that Dick and Vickie's house?

Royall

What goes around comes around!

[wyatt]

We did consider this, but because of setbacks
didn't have much choice. I hope insurance would cover something like this.


Wyatt

[Kelena]

Make sure your policy covers flood....if I had my druthers neither the pool nor the catchment would be so close to the house. They are both beneath the plane of the house (it is on post and pier), so that brings me some comfort.