OK Jeff,
This is what I think? You are playing with complex laws of physics. I try
to work with the more simple aspects of gravity!
Pump up, gravity flow down! What goes up must come down.
So I will either elevate my VF, pump up into it, and let the water flow back
into my pond
or
I will have my veggie filter lower than the output portion of my pond. Of
course the output portion has to be much lower than the top of the water
level in my pond. Say your VF is 12" lower than your pond, then the output
portion of your bottom drain from your pond can be 6" lower than the water
level in the pond. Then simply pump the water back into the pond from the
VF. No siphon to deal with, no head to calculate, and no major backflow to
deal with.
The lowest your main pond can go down is to the level of your bottom drain
out put or 6" low. And your veggie filter can never back flow back into
your main pond.
My 2 cents.
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"BenignVanilla" m wrote in
message ...
First off, my apologies for crying like a ninny in 12 different threads
about my VF problem. I appreciate you listening to me vent, and I
appreciate
all of the advice I have received. Before I do any more digging, I want to
make sure I understand how nature is working. This is my attempt to take
my
12 threads, and make them 1.
This post is meaningless without a fixed width font...
1 2
_ _
| | _ _
|^^^| |^^^|
| 3== | |
| | \\| |
| | ==="-|
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2 is my reservoir pond. 1 is my VF. The pond (2) has a bottom drain that
connects to a pipe that runs along the pond floor and then angles up. This
pipe then empties into the VF (1). Originally the output (3) was above the
water level (^^^) in the pond (2). I am working to drop this level down
and
dig the VF deeper. If I get this pipe below the water level (^^^) in the
pond (2) and I get it below the water level (^^^) in the VF (1), will the
water equalize to the same level (^^^) just above the pipe (==)?
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