Alley Cat water use

This detailed spreadsheet contains basic measures (such as how many gallons of water soak into the ground, or are collected from a roof, per square foot when an inch of rain falls), average precipitation figures for Minneapolis since the end of the 19th century, and the dimensions of each of our plots: http://bit.ly/igfT9R. This allows detailed estimation of water use, as well as the cost of a low-pressure soaker hose irrigation system.