Baker Equestrian Center - Hill Country Rainwater
Overview
- Category: Agricultural
- Organization Location: Dripping Springs, Texas; Hays County
- Activity: Uses captured rainwater to meet all daily operational demands of the center.
Background
The Baker Equestrian Center provides full-service horse boarding, grooming, and riding facilities and found an opportunity to match heavy water usage in these activities with a rainwater collection system that can provide all the water needed to perform daily operations. The center captures rainwater from the 20,000-square foot arena roof and stores it in a 100,000-gallon collection tank. The captured water is used to wash and water the horses, as well as moisten the arena surface daily. The center can collect approximately 12,400 gallons of water for every inch of rainfall providing over 400,000 gallons of rainwater collected annually. The system not only saves the owners thousands of dollars annually but preserves groundwater resources and reduces flooding in the adjacent pasture, which also increases the horses’ grazing area.