[I see my hands]

No, it’s not a seasonal system. Here is the general idea, but I would be using 4 five hundred gallon plastic water storage containers.

[Leonard210]

Beautiful! I’ve seen similar systems. Love the concept and it should work fine. Especially if you know your needs. I assume it needs filtering prior to use. What’s the best system for that?

[Nathan Zachary]

Storing run off water shown in your link isn't what's being proposed in the article.

Sure, digging a lake at the end of a seasonal stream would help provide a longer lasting water supply, likewise storing run off in 500 gallon plastic septic tanks, although you'll have terrible tasting stagnant water after a while, so you'll have to make a treatment system for drinking water as well, or distill your drinking water, and chlorinate the rest to keep it clean.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Back in 1959 I lived in Hope, NM, in the middle of nowhere. all over this semi-ghost town were abandoned buried cement cisterns shaped like a soda pop bottle about 20 feet deep. All were empty at the time an if you fell in one you were there till someone happened to find you.

The last time I went through there a few years ago they had been filled in and covered.