LOL. This makes me glad to be right in the middle of Redneck territory. We have no HOA in our subdivision. There were only a few rules in our contract, which most people ignore with impunity.
Heck, the county doesn’t even have a zoning authority, so if there is not state law agin it, we pretty much do what we want.
You know would it work to move a lot of your garden to raised beds over the limestone and free up the garden space for the underground cistern?
I’ll tell you what we decided to do. We bought an above ground swimming pool on sale at Walmart. It cost less than $300.00. It provides 4000 gallon capacity. We can let water from the roof fill it up during spring rains, cover it and put mosquito dunks or float veggie oil to prevent tadpoles and mosquitos and we are good to go.
You could swim in yours a few times at the beginning and mosquito dunks are not harmful to humans. There are articles about having “natural” swimming pools which are supposed to be better for the environment anyway.
IIRC even if you use the pool and keep it up with chlorine, you can set that water out for a day or so and the chlorine will be gone. By the end of summer it may be more of a wading pool though.LOL
I wish we could get away with ignoring the rules, ordinances, etc., of the HOA. People used to do that until the city hired a code enforcement officer. Get a notice taped on the door, get a call from city hall and a fine in the mail.