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Woohoo! Storm! No water!
Frank Logullo wrote:
...Isabel gave me 3 days without electricity and no water since I have a well... A medium generator will run a well pump. However there may be cheaper alternatives, depending on your well. Many modern wells have water within 10-20 feet of the surface. Even if you have to drill down 200' or more, that's to get a good flow rate, not to hit water. If the water is that close to the surface, it can be pulled up by a hand pump. I bought a hand pump last year at my local Ace hardware store. They called it a pitcher pump, but it's basically a piston in a cylinder, operated by a hand lever. A couple of flap valves allow it to pull water up and pump it out. The flap valves leak, so it needs to be primed after 10-15 minutes of inactivity (this allows it to be located outdoors -- it drains so it won't freeze). This could be mitigated by placing a good ball valve in the suction line. Obviously, if your well doesn't fit the above profile, this is not the way to go, but if it does, my total cost was about $60 including plumbing fittings. This system gets you water in buckets, not a pressurized water system like you're used to, but at least it's water. It doesn not solve your electricity problem. |
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Woohoo! Storm! No water!
Out here in the High Mojave Desert, the trailer park I live in has two wells,
both of which are about 200ft deep and the water level is at the 100ft mark. Still I get enough to grow 300+ iris and my I.Canna's too. -- "In this universe the night was falling,the shadows were lengthening towards an east that would not know another dawn. But elsewhere the stars were still young and the light of morning lingered: and along the path he once had followed, man would one day go again." Arthur C. Clarke, The City & The Stars SIAR www.starlords.org Freelance Writers Shop http://www.freelancewrittersshop.netfirms.com Telescope Buyers FAQ http://home.inreach.com/starlord Ad World http://adworld.netfirms.com "Dwight Sipler" wrote in message ... Frank Logullo wrote: ...Isabel gave me 3 days without electricity and no water since I have a well... A medium generator will run a well pump. However there may be cheaper alternatives, depending on your well. Many modern wells have water within 10-20 feet of the surface. Even if you have to drill down 200' or more, that's to get a good flow rate, not to hit water. If the water is that close to the surface, it can be pulled up by a hand pump. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.525 / Virus Database: 322 - Release Date: 10/9/03 |
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