Bob, I'm kinda with the guys who suggest laying pipe from your well to the tower...
I had a bored well with a submersible pump in it, but it had a very slow recovery. I used a HF sump pump to pump the spring water into the well and then let the 3/4 HP submersible push the water up to my tanks (20,000 gallons of storage in six tanks).
My oh my. 20,000 gallons. I'm glad I don't have to submit a schedule 'F' to lurk on TBN.
We're blessed with a good well. Ran pipe down into the holler years ago by renting a JD 110 backhoe (fun times!). The direct shot to the tower would be going this way:
A bit of a grade and several dozen mature trees before you bust out into the meadow where her garden is. Also have to cross this occasional creek and, frankly, I don't know how to do that other than a long, unnecessary bridge.
Sometimes it's dry and occasionally it is wide and 2 feet deep and in a hurry.
The most accessible route is right up the road from the holler to the garden.
But the trail up the hill past the creek is going the long way to the garden.
Any notion of trenching and laying a water pipe would be a long, expensive undertaking and would leave an ugly scar for a long time. The payoff is she can plant more flowers and maybe I'll get twice as many tomatoes, jalapenos, spices, and all the other stuff we mostly give away on a good year.
I'm not trying to compete with Del Monte, just clearing something off the She-Shed compound to-do list. Maybe she'll drain down the water in the tower once a week. Maybe every 3/4 days. The growing season is only 5 months and we often get good rain most the time. When we've had 'crop failure' from being too dry I was partially responsible for not bringing her enough 55 gallon barrels of water.
I'm going to try hauling water out to the shiny new water tower for awhile and see how that works out.
~Bob
