Pumping Water Out Of A Creek

You may also need a storage tank for the water especially if you have a small water supply like a creek that way you could pump a small flow continuously from the creek to fill the tank.

Pumping water out of a creek. The rise in elevation is 10 or less. Two 50 hose lengths will work. A rough estimate is that a lawn needs 600 gallons per 1000 square feet per week. The 40 foot lift to get the water out of the creek is your critical factor.

The intake pipe is 200 long and the discharge pipe is 150. I would like to get some type of pump that i could use to water my lawn from the creek. This pressure naturally increases as the fall increases from the feed pool becomes greater. The water would travel 150 feet.

Simon osborne 3 253 views. Once in the tank the irrigation water would either be pumped out of the tank to the irrigation system by a second pump or if the tank can be located 30 or so higher than the level of the irrigated area you could use gravity flow from the tank. This video shows how to get running water from a creek. Water from the source falls down into the drive pipe until there is enough pressure built up to start pumping.

Pumping water from the creek for 10c in power cost for 5000lph vs 15 from the mains duration. You won t be able to set a pump in your pasture above the creek and lift water 40. Your first task is to decide how much water you need for the lawn. The simplest method is to use a small portable pump.

If you can place it alongside the creek it will pump the water up the 40 to the pasture and then the 100 to the stock tank. When the waste valve closes water is driven through a check valve and into an air chamber. I m using a shallow well pump plugged into an outlet on my house. Pumping irrigation water from a stream or pond sounds great in theory but it can be really complicated to accomplish in practice.

If it s 20 of rise in elevation or less you can use a shallow well house pump to suck the water out of the stream. Make sure it is positioned safely and securely on a solid surface. This footage provides a bit more detail as to how we harnessed the creek water to a running spigot. Pumping water for irrigation is not difficult technically.