Posted: 7/5/2014 4:39:17 AM EDT
| So we recently moved from the city back out to the country. We have rural water and I've found it to not be very reliable. We have a fairly shallow well on property that I have been told is condemned due to some type of pollutant or too high something content. I don't know anything else about the condition of the well or the pump. I plan to see if I can make the pump work and get the water tested, to see if it's a viable back up option. My question goes along with another post on here about mass water storage. If I get a large water storage tank, basically a holding tank type set up, and I want to plumb it into my water system; what would be required to make it work properly? I'm not talking about the piping system with selector valves and whatnot I'm interested in the pump and pressure tank or whatever would be necessary to make it have usable water pressure. Thanks! |
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You have to circulate water in mass storage or it will go funky fast, simple water in water out unless you are using a lot of it will not suffice.
For the tank to provide any usable increase in water pressure it will have to be quite tall. Pull a sample from your existing well and have it tested before utilizing it, and do so annually if you decide to use it. |
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I think I understand what you want to do. But, I think you need to do it differently than what you are probably currently thinking.
What's unreliable about your current water system? Stops flowing? Or just variable water pressure? You can get a large holding tank. Make sure light cannot reach the water to prevent algae growth. Then, you fill the large tank with your normal water supply. Use a float type of shut off switch to stop the water flow when the big tank is full. Basically, the big tank is a holding tank only. It doesn't hold any pressure. Then, where your water flows from the tank into the house, install a pressure booster pump. After the booster pump, install a well pressure tank....I'd buy the biggest one you can (biggest one I've seen IIRC is a 220 gallon tank...but since there's a pressure bladder in the tank it only actually holds something like 80 gallons IIRC). Then, plumb it into the regular house system as normal. I'd install a filtration system. I'd put a filter on the input side of the big storage tank and then a smaller micron filter and maybe a charcoal filter on the pressure side of the water system. |
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Yes I'm planning to see of the well is safe as a viable option for back up prior to using it for sure.
The rural water seems to go completely off regularly due to main breaks or power outages, appearently they don't have a backup power supply :( The system described above is what I had in mind. So basically I'll need the tank, a pressure boosting pump, water pressure tank, and the filtration system? What types of filtration systems are recommended? I've been wanting to add filtration to our system anyway, we have a high chlorine smell in our tap water currently. We live in a major fracking area to boot :( |
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Yes I'm planning to see of the well is safe as a viable option for back up prior to using it for sure. The rural water seems to go completely off regularly due to main breaks or power outages, appearently they don't have a backup power supply :( The system described above is what I had in mind. So basically I'll need the tank, a pressure boosting pump, water pressure tank, and the filtration system? What types of filtration systems are recommended? I've been wanting to add filtration to our system anyway, we have a high chlorine smell in our tap water currently. We live in a major fracking area to boot :( The rural system is obligated under contract of license to provide minimum(30psi irc) pressure at the meter. There are also limits on chlorine ppm. Contact: TRWA (Texas Rural Water Association) 1616 Rio Grande Austin TX 78701 For more information and a course to remediation. Frac work is of little concern in most areas of Texas as aquifer sources are much much shallower than frac zones. Having to spend money to build your own storage and boost pressure is something you should not need to do in my opinion, unless you have an extraordinarily long service line and uphill topography from the tap. |
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The rural system is obligated under contract of license to provide minimum(30psi irc) pressure at the meter. There are also limits on chlorine ppm. Contact: TRWA (Texas Rural Water Association) 1616 Rio Grande Austin TX 78701 For more information and a course to remediation. Frac work is of little concern in most areas of Texas as aquifer sources are much much shallower than frac zones. Having to spend money to build your own storage and boost pressure is something you should not need to do in my opinion, unless you have an extraordinarily long service line and uphill topography from the tap. Quoted:
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Yes I'm planning to see of the well is safe as a viable option for back up prior to using it for sure. The rural water seems to go completely off regularly due to main breaks or power outages, appearently they don't have a backup power supply :( The system described above is what I had in mind. So basically I'll need the tank, a pressure boosting pump, water pressure tank, and the filtration system? What types of filtration systems are recommended? I've been wanting to add filtration to our system anyway, we have a high chlorine smell in our tap water currently. We live in a major fracking area to boot :( The rural system is obligated under contract of license to provide minimum(30psi irc) pressure at the meter. There are also limits on chlorine ppm. Contact: TRWA (Texas Rural Water Association) 1616 Rio Grande Austin TX 78701 For more information and a course to remediation. Frac work is of little concern in most areas of Texas as aquifer sources are much much shallower than frac zones. Having to spend money to build your own storage and boost pressure is something you should not need to do in my opinion, unless you have an extraordinarily long service line and uphill topography from the tap. Sorry I've not updated my profile since the move, we are in Southern OK now. We do have the right pressure when it's running, I'm just looking for a back up for when it's offline, not trying to bump the pressure coming in when it works. Plus I view this as a way to help with water storage. Thanks for all the tips. |