Help with water supply line

[Streetcar]

At my old house I had 900 foot run of 1 1/2" pic. No pressure problems.
With the need to rent both ,I would go with the trencher. It was built for the job verses something that will work

 

[dadster4]

First step would be to find out what the pressure is at the street...without this info any calculations are a waste of time. You may not need any booster pumps, tanks, etc. at all. In fact, you may need a pressure reducing valve at the house.

 

[GPintheMitten]

Find a pipe supplier that can do calculations for you. And contact your provider to get specs for your source.

Last year I installed about 1800 feet of buried water lines for 9 hydrants for horses. This is in Michigan, 4 ft deep. I rented a sit on driving trencher that probably weighed about 8000 pounds. We installed 1 1/2 p.e. pipe. The owner of the.pipe supplier did the calculations and provided the fittings and pipe. Very expensive.

Get the professional advice for your situation. Do it right and do it once. It's too expensive to do it wrong.

 

[STx]

I'd calculate based on 15GPM, you may not ever need it but that's the largest likely household demand.

2" Sch 40 PVC at that distance will lose about 6.3PSI.
2.5" Sch 40 PVC will lose only 2.7PSI.

I'd go with the 2.5" pipe, price won't be that much more, unless you have 100PSI or something at the meter, in which case you could go with 1.25" Sch40 PVC and lose the 45PSI to get you down to a more useful 55PSI at the house and you'll still probably need a pressure regulator.

 

[D2Cat]

Why not go the your rural water office and talk to the manager. They know their system and what it will provide to your location for volume and pressure. Ask him how he would do it if it was his property.

 

[Billrog]

A curb stop from a water district would be very unusual if it were more than 3/4". Don't cheap out on the pipe 1" or 1 1/4" pipe will give you plenty of water. Don't lay it fiddle string tight let it wander from one side of the ditch to the other and if it's rocky soil bed it with sand.

 

[Qapla]

If you are going to bury the pipe less than 2' deep, I would think a chain trencher would be best .... ride on is easier to use that a walk along type.

If I were going deeper than that, I would consider a "mini track hoe" with either a 9" or 12" bucket. That would allow you do dig up to 7 feet deep.

At that depth, you may not get much, if any, pipe movement due to temperature changes.

I also install irrigation for a living. When we did Condos, many of then eventually end up with several thousand feet of mainline, we rarely needed larger than 2". Since we were digging the mainline with a hoe, we went deep, because we could. The little extra pipe you need for coming up is negligible.

Since Florida does not really have a freeze issue, we did not have to worry about that. If it was a concern, I would probably use a "slip fix" where the pipe leaves the ground vertically, this would allow movement without leaking.

 

[GPintheMitten]

A track hoe will take a long time to open up a 2000 foot trench compared to a large trencher.

 

[Egon]

For pipe rolls a plow might be what is required.

 

[joeu235]

For pipe rolls a plow might be what is required.

My dad has a roll over 3 bottom plow set up for running pipe but it doesn't go too deep.