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Natural Spring - How to use for irrigation?
Catch the water coming out the overflow drain
and measure it over a period of time? Yes. You are on the right track. Figure out what you have to work with and when it is available. That would be a good starting point. Our peak Et rate (a term used to measure the amount of water used) for cool season turf ,which usually occurs during the summer, is 1.5" per week. Applying an amount somewhat less than this would be a good conservation strategy for drought periods. -- Baine "Robert Gray" wrote in message . com... Thanks Baine for the application ratio, Good point about the summer dry spells. Seems to me that this spot is particularlly wet in the spring. I just might want to excavate a small hole - maybe a four foot circle about three feet deep. Run an overflow tench that will drain it off when it fills. Then see if it stays filled all summer. Might need to use the big rocks to stabilize the walls. I can always implement the pump idea next year - if it produces steady water. 30,000 gallons is a lot of water! How can I measure the flow? Catch the water coming out the overflow drain and measure it over a period of time? There are two potential uses. A shrub/flower bed - maybe 25'x25' - directly around the spring. Two lawn areas ~ 20'x200' each (with elevation running hgiher away from the the spring area). Based on 8k sqaure feet, I would need a bit more than 5k gals.for the one inch Or, at only 625 sq ft for the bed area, that would be 425 gals. If the spring produces 1 gal per hour, then I could water the bed every 17 days with one inch of water - or something like 1/2 inch of water every week. Assuming of course that the hole can hold 210 gals. But it would not be useful if it slows down during the drought... Robert "Baine Carruthers" wrote in message . .. Consider this, it takes 27,154 gallons to apply 1" of water to 1 acre. You need to figure the flow rate of the spring and then the area you plan to irrigate. Generally you would need this water during the drought. Are you sure the spring is viable in the summer? -- Baine "Robert Gray" wrote in message . com... Well, I have finally got around to backfilling drainage pipes in the culverts of my yard. In one part of the yard, there was always a soft spot. Turns out that it is a natural spring, and it continues to bubble up through the new fill. It is close enough to a drain (20') that I think I can excavate the fill and put in a french drain to trap the water and direct it to the the drain before it reaches the surface. Some landscape fabric, a truckload of gravel, some slotted drain pipe, and a day or so of digging, installing and backfilling and it should work. But, before I do that I thought I would check with others about the possibility of using the water for irrigation. We have had some long hot summers without much rain lately, and the spring is ideally located to service an area (where I will plant grass and shrubs) that is far from the water of the house. We do not have any other type of sprinkler systems (on a well), but this just might make sense. I have ideas of burying a holding tank, directing the water into the tank, and then pumping it out into a pressurized tank for the sprinkler lines. But, I haven't done anything like this before and need some technical references to see if it is viable. Anyone have experience they would like to share? Thanks, Robert |
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