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Originally Posted by harveyc
I draw water from the Sacramento River. Our 15 horsepower pump only pumped about 1,500 gpm for many years but we had the bowls rebuilt a year ago and it's capacity increased to more than the 1,800 gpm which should really be pushed through 12" lines. I can divert the water into more than one line at a time to decrease the load or I can dump some water into the river into I clear all of the air from the lines and then push it up without any trouble.
I believe saw a pretty good price for 2" line at Home Depot recently and they had it marked "new lower price" but it was only in 10 lengths and then you must also buy couplers. I bought 520 feet of 1.5" PVC recent for $.618/foot from the same local supplier but can't remember what the Home Depot price was for the same. My mind is pretty foggy about all of this right now as I'm beat. Four days down and about two more to go!
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I only get about 50 gpm out of my well pump at a mini ranch I have in snowflake its 40 acres. We are attempting to convert it to a farm/mini orchard. Currently we have about 250 fruit trees of various types planted(still very small about 6 feet each), and about three acres of squash/pumpkins/watermellon/corn etc. When all is said and done I'm hoping for about 1500-2000 trees, about 10 acres of veggies and about 5 acres of clover etc for poultry. That may a little too much to ask of a well though. After all it is high desert land. But it is located on the largest aquafer in the southwest so maybe it will work out.