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How does water flow?
Some of you remember my VF fiasco, and that much of the liner is showing due
to my error in judgment on the grade of the land that the VF is built in. I am contemplating a solution to hide this liner, and need some assistance. Currently my pump sits in my VF and pumps TO my pond. Water then gravity feeds via a bottom drain back TO the VF. The liner is mostly visible on the far end (away from gravity feed) of the VF. I am contemplating, building a wall using sandbags in the VF. I then will put the pump into the end with the feed, and pump UP to the new "pond" created by the wall. I then plan to let the water run back through the current send pipe back to the main pond, via gravity. I think I may need a valve here to control the flow. My theory here is that I can pump the water up faster then I let it drain into the pond, thereby raising the level of the water. I figure I can put some nice big rocks over the sandbags and let the overflow pour back into the lower VF, adding some interest and hiding the sandbag wall. Any thoughts? -- BenignVanilla Pond Site: www.darofamily.com/jeff/links/mypond |
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How does water flow?
Not quite sure what you mean. But if you're trying to match the flow of
the pump with the flow through a valve to keep the water level at a certain point you'll have troubles. Maybe a picture out of ascii would help. BenignVanilla wrote: Some of you remember my VF fiasco, and that much of the liner is showing due to my error in judgment on the grade of the land that the VF is built in. I am contemplating a solution to hide this liner, and need some assistance. Currently my pump sits in my VF and pumps TO my pond. Water then gravity feeds via a bottom drain back TO the VF. The liner is mostly visible on the far end (away from gravity feed) of the VF. I am contemplating, building a wall using sandbags in the VF. I then will put the pump into the end with the feed, and pump UP to the new "pond" created by the wall. I then plan to let the water run back through the current send pipe back to the main pond, via gravity. I think I may need a valve here to control the flow. My theory here is that I can pump the water up faster then I let it drain into the pond, thereby raising the level of the water. I figure I can put some nice big rocks over the sandbags and let the overflow pour back into the lower VF, adding some interest and hiding the sandbag wall. Any thoughts? -- BenignVanilla Pond Site: www.darofamily.com/jeff/links/mypond |
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How does water flow?
BenignVanilla wrote: Some of you remember my VF fiasco, and that much of the liner is showing due to my error in judgment on the grade of the land that the VF is built in. I am contemplating a solution to hide this liner, and need some assistance. My theory here is that I can pump the water up faster then I let it drain into the pond, thereby raising the level of the water. I figure I can put some nice big rocks over the sandbags and let the overflow pour back into the lower VF, adding some interest and hiding the sandbag wall. Any thoughts? -- BenignVanilla Pond Site: www.darofamily.com/jeff/links/mypond sounds like it should work ok how hi are you trying to go, my memory fails here, if you pack em tight enough you can get pretty high -- John Rutz Z5 New Mexico never miss a good oportunity to shut up see my pond at: http://www.fuerjefe.com |
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How does water flow?
"john rutz" wrote in message ... BenignVanilla wrote: Some of you remember my VF fiasco, and that much of the liner is showing due to my error in judgment on the grade of the land that the VF is built in. I am contemplating a solution to hide this liner, and need some assistance. My theory here is that I can pump the water up faster then I let it drain into the pond, thereby raising the level of the water. I figure I can put some nice big rocks over the sandbags and let the overflow pour back into the lower VF, adding some interest and hiding the sandbag wall. Any thoughts? -- BenignVanilla Pond Site: www.darofamily.com/jeff/links/mypond sounds like it should work ok how hi are you trying to go, my memory fails here, if you pack em tight enough you can get pretty high So you think this can work? My primary areas of concern a 1. Can I pump water uphill enough to fill a "pond" above the water line of my reservoir pond? 2. Can I control the flow back to the reservoir with a valve? I have 4'' plumbing that is currently stopped down to 1'' to handle the pump output. BV. |
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How does water flow?
BenignVanilla wrote: "john rutz" wrote in message ... BenignVanilla wrote: So you think this can work? My primary areas of concern a 1. Can I pump water uphill enough to fill a "pond" above the water line of my reservoir pond? 2. Can I control the flow back to the reservoir with a valve? I have 4'' plumbing that is currently stopped down to 1'' to handle the pump output. BV. 1 yes definitly even without the wall you can get up a half in or so higher ( thats about what mine does ) and im only restreicting with rock that are around 1/4 in apart 2 ok i give I cant comprhend what you are doing here ;-) back from where? if you mean back from the VF it should be a tad higer in the hi pond just from the pump output the water will always rut to the lower direction or to the VF and then to the main pond -- John Rutz Z5 New Mexico never miss a good oportunity to shut up see my pond at: http://www.fuerjefe.com |
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How does water flow?
"john rutz" wrote in message
... snip 1 yes definitly even without the wall you can get up a half in or so higher ( thats about what mine does ) and im only restreicting with rock that are around 1/4 in apart 2 ok i give I cant comprhend what you are doing here ;-) back from where? if you mean back from the VF it should be a tad higer in the hi pond just from the pump output the water will always rut to the lower direction or to the VF and then to the main pond snip I guess it's hard to picture. My VF is cut into a hill. So one end currently has about 10-12 inches of vertical liner showing, and the other end (where the inflow pipe is) has about 6 inches showing. I plan to build a wall of sandbags between them and pump from the low end up to the high end. I then plan to let the water flow from the high end through the current outflow pipe (the one that the pump is currently pumping to) back to the main pond. |
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How does water flow?
How does water flow? Gonna hazard a guess and say downhill. Sorry, couldn't resist. -- New Layout!! Check out my pond webpage: Http://trains99.tripod.com Click on the My Pond Link under Places to Go Take ME away to reply |
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How does water flow?
BenignVanilla wrote: "john rutz" wrote in message ... snip 1 yes definitly even without the wall you can get up a half in or so higher ( thats about what mine does ) and im only restreicting with rock that are around 1/4 in apart 2 ok i give I cant comprhend what you are doing here ;-) back from where? if you mean back from the VF it should be a tad higer in the hi pond just from the pump output the water will always rut to the lower direction or to the VF and then to the main pond snip I guess it's hard to picture. My VF is cut into a hill. So one end currently has about 10-12 inches of vertical liner showing, and the other end (where the inflow pipe is) has about 6 inches showing. I plan to build a wall of sandbags between them and pump from the low end up to the high end. I then plan to let the water flow from the high end through the current outflow pipe (the one that the pump is currently pumping to) back to the main pond. -- it sounds like it might work might take a bit of fiddling wt the sandbags to get the levels worked out keep us posted as to how it goes John Rutz Z5 New Mexico never miss a good oportunity to shut up see my pond at: http://www.fuerjefe.com |
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How does water flow?
Bob in PA wrote: How does water flow? Gonna hazard a guess and say downhill. Sorry, couldn't resist. -- I used to have a link to a gizmo that caused water to flow uphill, it was an art project and it did work John Rutz Z5 New Mexico never miss a good oportunity to shut up see my pond at: http://www.fuerjefe.com |
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How does water flow?
Downhill.
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How does water flow?
As long as the overflow can return to the other side of the wall you
can go as high as the max. head on your pump. The problem being when you turn off the pump all ponds will seek the same level and the water will go through the sand bag wall and overflow the lower pond. (there is a bright side, the sandbags will filter out the clay) ;-} http://community.webshots.com/user/hankpage1 "BenignVanilla" wrote in message ... Some of you remember my VF fiasco, and that much of the liner is showing due to my error in judgment on the grade of the land that the VF is built in. I am contemplating a solution to hide this liner, and need some assistance. Currently my pump sits in my VF and pumps TO my pond. Water then gravity feeds via a bottom drain back TO the VF. The liner is mostly visible on the far end (away from gravity feed) of the VF. I am contemplating, building a wall using sandbags in the VF. I then will put the pump into the end with the feed, and pump UP to the new "pond" created by the wall. I then plan to let the water run back through the current send pipe back to the main pond, via gravity. I think I may need a valve here to control the flow. My theory here is that I can pump the water up faster then I let it drain into the pond, thereby raising the level of the water. I figure I can put some nice big rocks over the sandbags and let the overflow pour back into the lower VF, adding some interest and hiding the sandbag wall. Any thoughts? -- BenignVanilla Pond Site: www.darofamily.com/jeff/links/mypond |
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