Water pump.

Limestone Cowboy

What kind of a pump would be required to pump water roughly 200ft vertically over roughly 1000ft lads. Have a large concrete tank at the bottom of the hill and would like to be able to pump water to another tank at the top of the hill and have troughs gravity feeding off that coming back down. I'm only estimating the height so if anyone could tell me if there's some website that shows heights it would be great too!

Count Mondego

Download google earth onto PC/laptop. There's a tool there for graphing the elevation between two points. It's a mighty job.

longgonesilver

Hi When you get your details sorted and an estimate of the volume to be pumped ring a pump installer and ask for a quote and advice. 200 ft lift is not excessive a shallow well pump might be cheaper but there are a lot of advantages with a submersible. A system to prevent the pump running dry is essential. The run is reasonably long and the pipe might cost more than the pump.

Tokyo

Count Mondego wrote: »

Download google earth onto PC/laptop. There's a tool there for graphing the elevation between two points. It's a mighty job.

This. Find the location on google earth and draw a path between the two points in question. The Elevation Profile tool will give you a graph of the elevation all along that route.

https://support.google.com/earth/answer/181393?hl=en

onyerbikepat

Count Mondego wrote: »

Download google earth onto PC/laptop. There's a tool there for graphing the elevation between two points. It's a mighty job.

That's brilliant. I wonder how accurate it is?

Limestone Cowboy

Well looks like I under estimated a small bit, 90m elevation gain over 500m.

Count Mondego

onyerbikepat wrote: »

That's brilliant. I wonder how accurate it is?

Ya, impressive alright. I'd say the tolerance is small enough.

Edit:

Did a search there and someone mentioned that they use SRTM data that has 30m vertical accuracy at 90m horizontal grid spacing. Cannot post link due to stupid boards rules.

Tokyo

Best way to do it in terms of accuracy is if you can get your hands on a GPS and take a reading at the two points in question. Most GPS units will give you an altitude reading within a couple of metres.

Laodach

If you have already fitted your pipeline between the two tanks, put a pressure gauge at the lower tank, fill the pipeline, the pressure gauge will now indicate the static head between the two tanks.
If the gauge reads 9 Bar or 130 P.S.I. Then that is the pressure required to push the water up the hill.
The most efficient pump to use is a submersible. Contact a pump installer near you, I have used Kikawa pump for similar type job and its working very well.
If the Google app says 90 mts. then you need a pump that can do at least 10 Bar.
Good luck with your venture, I'm curious to hear how it works out for you.