55 Gallon Barrels $10-20 in the GVRD

[mike31154]

I got a few of these locally from a garden center, but still not at that good of a price. Anyhow, if you can get the bung plugs with the lid or barrel, check them out. In many cases you can drill out the bung plug and some of them are threaded so if drilled carefully, you'll have a nice threaded hole to put a valve into. Then, provided the bung plug also has the seal with it, you can lay the barrel on its side. This way you don't need to drill extra holes & add bulkheads, seals etc. You do lose some capacity with it on it's side and of course get or DIY some sort of stand for it, but that's the way I use one of them to collect RODI waste water.

[Myka]

Omg, I just Googled "bung"...apparently it IS a real word! My barrels have a 2" bung in the lid which I found useless because I chucked the lids out! Technicall mine don't have lids because the barrels were solid and I had to use a jigsaw to cut the tops off.