Cvail
New Member
I’m building a house and I’m trying to figure out how to set up my water. I have a great producing shallow well on my property but it is 1200ft from the home site. The county wants $5000 to put in a meter and I would then have to run 1500ft of line to the house. We are in the country with a county electric co-op and the power goes out all the time. I have a 22kW whole home standby generator. I DO NOT have standby power at the well location. I’m an engineer and I fully understand lift, head, friction, ect.
That being said what I want to do is bury a 500gal tank at the home site and feed that tank from the well. Since it is just my wife and I, 500 gallons would last us a while and I won’t need a high flow rate to feed the storage tank. I have a portable generator that I could run the well pump off of if I need to.
What setup should I run from the storage tank to the house? I was thinking a submersible in the 500gal tank that is fed from the well to a pressure tank in the garage. That way if power goes out my standby generator will run the pump in the tank and if power is out for more than a couple of days I can hook my Honda generator to the well pump and feed the holding tank.
I’d like to have 60lbs into the house and we will have a bathroom over the garage.
That being said what I want to do is bury a 500gal tank at the home site and feed that tank from the well. Since it is just my wife and I, 500 gallons would last us a while and I won’t need a high flow rate to feed the storage tank. I have a portable generator that I could run the well pump off of if I need to.
What setup should I run from the storage tank to the house? I was thinking a submersible in the 500gal tank that is fed from the well to a pressure tank in the garage. That way if power goes out my standby generator will run the pump in the tank and if power is out for more than a couple of days I can hook my Honda generator to the well pump and feed the holding tank.
I’d like to have 60lbs into the house and we will have a bathroom over the garage.