wasabi
Platinum Member
We have a gravity feed country water system. Basically the water is picked up through a screen covered black plastic pipe which runs about 1200 ft downhill, buried two to three feet underground, to our buildings. We've got plenty of flow and vertical fall so volume and pressure are not problems...in fact, we have to use a 300 gal food grade plastic water tank to collect the water about 80 ft uphill from the shack to <font color=red>reduce</font color=red> the pressure!! Problem is the spring has moved considerably uphill from the original location ove the years, so we are now basically collecting ground water.
Our friendly backhoe contractor (alas, no tractor of our own yet) suggests we dig uphill at the "duck's tail" where he is convinced the spring originates, to capture water that is still flowing underground, then sort of pen it in with a gravel filled, plastic liner wrapped scenario containing a header made from 1 1/2 pipe with holes in it, and then re-bury the whole thing.
Sounds to me like it would work, assuming the spring stays put.
What think you, common sense minded fellow TBNer's?
Our friendly backhoe contractor (alas, no tractor of our own yet) suggests we dig uphill at the "duck's tail" where he is convinced the spring originates, to capture water that is still flowing underground, then sort of pen it in with a gravel filled, plastic liner wrapped scenario containing a header made from 1 1/2 pipe with holes in it, and then re-bury the whole thing.
Sounds to me like it would work, assuming the spring stays put.
What think you, common sense minded fellow TBNer's?