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developing a spring for water use

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ric1

10-18-2006 06:15:03




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does anyone know a good practical way of developing a spring for both drinking water and livestock watering these would be two different units




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coup

10-20-2006 15:59:19




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 Re: developing a spring for water use in reply to ric1, 10-18-2006 06:15:03  
you have to know the spring;s history first,how much water during drought and such.....easy for the cattle part,,,your local extension man or county ag. will offer suggestions and most sell catch boxes.....many folks here in wv use for drinking and running whole houses.....people on tops of hills use to catch water from the gutters on there houses in cisterns and pump to house.... where i live now someone in 1918 dug down where a hog wollered during the worst drought they ever had here. it is down about 5ft and they drove a pipe back into a rock crack ran in down 20 feet and built a 6by6 cistern and then water ran into the house,,we still use it for backup. how do i know the date i had to dig it up and on a large flat rock covering a gravel pit and the pipe was a mans initials and 1918,,,i put some artifacts in a couple of jars inside each other cause the next guy that digs that up should find something...

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Dave Sherburne NY

10-18-2006 15:23:09




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 Re: developing a spring for water use in reply to ric1, 10-18-2006 06:15:03  
I did this once about 20 years ago or more.
Had a backhoe dig out an area about 15 ft. in dia
and ditches up the hill to the two springs which were about 8 ft apart. Put down about a foot of
2 " washed gravel and covered a pipe with the gravel
Then had a big backhoe set a piece of concrete
culvert about 7 ft in dia. on top of the gravel for
a resevoir. Then ran a piece of 2" plastic drain
pipe under and up almost to the top of the culvert
for an overflow. Ran a piece of black plastic water pipe under the culvert and laid a submersible pump on the gravel to pump it to the house. Then we back filled around the culvert,
and built the dirt up around it so the ground sloped away in all directions. Then built a shed over it. Once in a while some critter got in it.
But I never told the wife.

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john *.?-!.* cub owner

10-18-2006 10:48:40




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 Re: developing a spring for water use in reply to ric1, 10-18-2006 06:15:03  
A spring for drinking water is not practical in mosty areas. you would have to ram a casing a long wyas into it to stop the surface water and bacteria.



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