- Title:
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Tanks on Trial: Performance of rainwater tanks in bushfire conditions
- Date:
- November 2010
- Organisations
- BCRC
- Authors:
- Issue 68: Research into rainwater tanks tested at a bushfire simulator in 2004.
Overview
Different types of rainwater tanks can play an important role in the defence of a home against a bushfire attack. Indeed, such storage tanks are critical to active and passive protection against bushfires. Anecdotal evidence already existed to suggest steel water tanks would offer greater protection to both residential and commercial properties in the event of a bushfire than alternative materials because of their non-combustibility.
