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At 15ft are you sure the water is potable for livestock? Have you tested it? I think your going to have surface water contamintion not even fit for livestock use. Here they spec the first 10ft at 8" pipe bore with concrete back fill on a 4ftx4ftx6" concrete slope away pad. I would look up your State spec's for your useage. In the back of my mine, I seam to remember a 40ft minimum static head rule, so about a 60ft minimum shaft depth on a cased bore.

You've severely limited your choices with a 2" bore. Increase the bore size to 4" as then you have a pump choice. This can be done easy by hand since you have a existing 2" bore.

The next best would be build a under ground room, much like a the root cellars used to be with the bore inside the cellar. You would only need to be 1ft deeper than your frost line.

Anything less than 250ft you can use a venturia pump that never needs serviced and requires no electrical into the bore. They run about $500 denpending on the volume you want.

T_Bone

"You've severely limited your choices with a 2" bore. Increase the bore size to 4" as then you have a pump choice. This can be done easy by hand since you have a existing 2" bore."

I'm interested in how it can be done easily by hand. I feel like this is the type of not too technical problem that I should be able to figure out for myself, but so far nothing has occurred to me.

Thanks, Stan

As you probably know, 3 3/4" is standard. Far as I know only Grundfos makes a smaller one, which I use. But it's not small enough for you. 2 3/4", if memory serves. I'll measure my spare when I go to the shop later.