JonRankin
New Member
We recently bought a place that has a natural spring that provides good head pressure to our home, but it has been plumbed as follows:
-Spring water collects in an open 2500 gallon concrete reservoir
-Gravity feed through 2" PVC to a pair of 5000 gallon poly tanks near home site. Head pressure at inlet to tanks is about 60 psi
-Poly tanks feed low pressure water to a boost pump and pressure tank
-Pressure tank feeds through filter, softener and UV light, then to house
We seem to be wasting the head pressure from the gravity feed, just to use a pump to get it back to about the same pressure level. I think I could just bypass the tanks and feed the spring water straight to the filters, but I'd like to keep the tanks in the loop so that the water in there doesn't start growing things, and keep the tank water as a backup in case the spring gets slow in the summer. I would loose the benefit of settling some of the sediment out of the spring water in the poly tanks, so I'd probably end up going through filters faster. I'm new to springs and wells, is there any kind of a pressure tank that would let me use the spring supply line to boost the pressure of the stored tank water? Is the boost pump using less power than it seems and I should just not sweat it?
For reference, there is no power at the spring location, and 220 / 110 power at the poly tanks / boost pump location. I'm drawing off the middle of the concrete reservoir right now, so I should be getting a fair amount of sediment out there - maybe putting in a baffle of concrete blocks would help further?
Thanks!
-Spring water collects in an open 2500 gallon concrete reservoir
-Gravity feed through 2" PVC to a pair of 5000 gallon poly tanks near home site. Head pressure at inlet to tanks is about 60 psi
-Poly tanks feed low pressure water to a boost pump and pressure tank
-Pressure tank feeds through filter, softener and UV light, then to house
We seem to be wasting the head pressure from the gravity feed, just to use a pump to get it back to about the same pressure level. I think I could just bypass the tanks and feed the spring water straight to the filters, but I'd like to keep the tanks in the loop so that the water in there doesn't start growing things, and keep the tank water as a backup in case the spring gets slow in the summer. I would loose the benefit of settling some of the sediment out of the spring water in the poly tanks, so I'd probably end up going through filters faster. I'm new to springs and wells, is there any kind of a pressure tank that would let me use the spring supply line to boost the pressure of the stored tank water? Is the boost pump using less power than it seems and I should just not sweat it?
For reference, there is no power at the spring location, and 220 / 110 power at the poly tanks / boost pump location. I'm drawing off the middle of the concrete reservoir right now, so I should be getting a fair amount of sediment out there - maybe putting in a baffle of concrete blocks would help further?
Thanks!