Water and Home Improvements

I have so many plans for spring...thats how I spend my winters, reading, studying, and planning. This year I started early at an annual campout that my tribe goes to every spring and fall. I have been so inspired by my fellow pagans. From gardening, to wind turbines, to composting toilets and rain water.
My husband has really wanted to put a good gutter system on our house, because there is not one and we need it. Now Im thinking that a rain barrel system attached to that would be very helpful. Our house is on city water, and it leaves so much to be desired....A few years ago, staff infections began to be a problem around our town, and it has steadily gotten worse. I really think it has something to do with our town water source, and in talking to people I have found that I am not the only one. A few weeks ago the cokes at the local Sonic and McDonlads began to stink and taste like dirt. Just recently we found out from our local paper that the water company has had some issue with blue-green algae. Apparently the water manager did not know it was there because it couldnt be seen. When it was discovered he killed it with chlorine, causing the algae to rise to the surface of the water ponds (locally called the Shit Ponds, hows that for nice). Kind of sounds like the ponds turned over to me. The smell was awful from what I hear-our water is filtered and never stank, which is odd to me since we are attached to their grid. Anyway, this stinky water went out to residents without them knowing WHY their water was suddenly foul. When asked, the manager said he had been assured the water was not harmful, just foul tasting and smelly, but that would clear up in a few days. My husband said that they kept having to change the filters on the coke machines every few minutes because they would be coated in a sledge from the water, so they started serving Cokes from bottles. This lasted for several days, and still our water was fine. But that is a bit disturbing.
Several years ago we got a notice from the health inspectors saying that our water did not have the amount of chlorine in it that is should, but that this was not hazardous to our health. Okay sure, whatever. We are in a small town with a BAD intravenous drug problem. Alot of these ppl probably contribute to the staff problem, and where does their waste go? Into our water system to be recycled, and if there is not enough chlorine in the water to purify it, isnt that going to be a problem? Call me paranoid.
We have a well on our property that was fouled before we ever moved in, and I am looking into how to fix that problem. It has been blocked up but the pipe is still there in our dog pen, and I would really like to get a hand pump to at least use it for the gardens which will expand in the spring.
Another thing we really want to do is save up for a turbine system for our RV, and a composting toilet for it as well. I have found a very cool toilet that uses peat moss to recycle the waste from the toilet into garden grade compost for ornamentals. This is similar to the system that some friends of ours use in composting outhouses, just on a smaller scale. If done correctly it is only suppose to have a light earthy odor.
Currently we are putting back a lil money here and there to try and save up for a substantial amount of land that we want to buy with members of our tribe. I will elaborate more on that later on...I dont want to mix it in with my bitching about the local water source lol.
We have been doing some winterizing, my husband did alot of caulking and the like back in the summer when we were doing some home improvements. Id really like to finish painting the house, but we will probably have to wait until the spring for that since it has gotten rainy. We just like the back of the house anyway and one side, and we would like to put in some new screen doors, and metal screening on the windows in spring as well. Plus work on our back porch. Once those things are done, I want to concentrate on the yard and gardens and nothing but that. Its more relaxing, the home stuff stresses me out. The yard work is therapeutic.
Well that is all I have for now....