What im doing is pumping out of a river to fill a 275gallon + tank, this is as distance of about 250 ft steady going up hill. I need to know what pump to use for this if im going to be running a 1” poly pipe to the tank. Reason for poly pipe due to me possibly having to move the suction pipe if non submersible and if submersible moving it when we get a hard rain for the river will get up and wash debris down that may cause damage. To control this pump I found a on and off flouter switch that I would install inside of this tank so when the level got about half full or so it will come on to fill it back up. From this tank I will be using another pump to run my irrigation that im installing. I don’t know what pump to go with. The tank has at the bottom a 2 inch ball valve out let. The irrigation will have a total of 9 heads so far that are or will be ran like this. One side of the house I have to runs of ½ poly with one head ea. Then I have a ¾ poly ran with one head. This was so I can control them separately right now running from the spigot. I should be able to run all three with the pump.
The other side I have planed on 6 heads but running 2 lines of 1” poly with 3 heads on ea. Correct me if there is a better way etc.! So the pump to run this setup im un sure of at this moment. I was looking at a 1 hp shallow well pump with a 4.4 gallon tank on it that has a max psi of 72 and 892GPH flow rate. I would take any other suggestions, im still learning all that I can and have not done much calculations on it cause of being confused about some things and what flow for the rain bird heads etc.
Got to thinking about trying one pump and no tank straight from river to valves for irrigation. Could this work? Total distance would be about 400ft all but the last 100ft on an incline.
Thanks in advance for any input,
Tim
The other side I have planed on 6 heads but running 2 lines of 1” poly with 3 heads on ea. Correct me if there is a better way etc.! So the pump to run this setup im un sure of at this moment. I was looking at a 1 hp shallow well pump with a 4.4 gallon tank on it that has a max psi of 72 and 892GPH flow rate. I would take any other suggestions, im still learning all that I can and have not done much calculations on it cause of being confused about some things and what flow for the rain bird heads etc.
Got to thinking about trying one pump and no tank straight from river to valves for irrigation. Could this work? Total distance would be about 400ft all but the last 100ft on an incline.
Thanks in advance for any input,
Tim
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