Water Monster
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Mr. Love,
We recently had 1" tap installed at street and need to run waterline 2500' to front of our property. I am receiving numerous answers about how to do this and cost is also a concern. Pressure at street is approximately 80 lbs. with a slight uphill grade then mostly straight and level.
The local water authority that installed the tap recommends a minimum 1" line. An engineer I spoke with recommends no less than 2" and a plumber suggested stepping down the line which I like best as it will be less expensive and hopefully perform better than minimum recommendation but not sure how to do this...1000' with 2" pipe then 750' with 1.5" pipe then another 750' with 1" pipe?
We would like to terminate the waterline at a frost proof hydrant as no building is on the property yet. In the future we would like to run 3 separate lines on the property another 200' or so for small cabins. Any advice or assistance in this matter would be greatly appreciated.
Don
We recently had 1" tap installed at street and need to run waterline 2500' to front of our property. I am receiving numerous answers about how to do this and cost is also a concern. Pressure at street is approximately 80 lbs. with a slight uphill grade then mostly straight and level.
The local water authority that installed the tap recommends a minimum 1" line. An engineer I spoke with recommends no less than 2" and a plumber suggested stepping down the line which I like best as it will be less expensive and hopefully perform better than minimum recommendation but not sure how to do this...1000' with 2" pipe then 750' with 1.5" pipe then another 750' with 1" pipe?
We would like to terminate the waterline at a frost proof hydrant as no building is on the property yet. In the future we would like to run 3 separate lines on the property another 200' or so for small cabins. Any advice or assistance in this matter would be greatly appreciated.
Don