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Rain barrels are overflowing, but how can you use the water?
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Jan 8, 2016
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Rain barrels are overflowing, but how can you use the water?
Storing water from the storms is great, but what if you tore out your lawn, too? You may have too much water on your hands for the remaining plants in your home.
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Storing water from the storms is great, but what if you tore out your lawn, too? You may have too much water on your hands for the remaining plants in your home.

It may be sunny and dry, today, but up to four inches of rain fell in parts of Southern California during the past week. 

It's a boon to the lucky Angelenos who scored a free rain barrel from the city in the past year: they now have a ton of extra water saved up at their homes!

But, uh, now what?

KPCC listeners said in the past several years they started doing things to save water. Brent Smiley, for example, says he's now "collecting rainwater and ripping out our lawn."

Others have replaced their lawn with drought-tolerant gardens, which don't need that much water.

What can you do with all this extra water when it may be too much for the plants that still populate your home?

Take Two talks with Valley Glen resident Amy Bryman who's struggling to answer that question herself.