OT: designing a gravity drip irrigation system?

IaLeo · Feb 18, 2015

I am pondering how to handle about 100 feet of eavestrough output and a 5gpm geo furnace airconditioner output (currently dumping in field drain tile) and use it to water nearby flower bed, a couple of apple trees and further out, down the hill, a row of lilac starts. I want to mow the lawn in that area, also.
Looks like I would have to invest in a big ugly cattle tank by the house (yeah, I've got to sell this idea yet!) to catch rain storms and the warm water output coming erractically and fast. Then pipe it downhill with 2 foot to 5 foot drop.

Any one tried this low pressure, slow bleed system? Looks like mowing and fall take up is a nuisance.

Leo

Spudm · Feb 18, 2015

Check out ram pumps and how they work on youtube. It might give you some useful ideas that may work for what you want to do.

jacks · Feb 18, 2015

Leo, I have a system very similar to what you describe beside the equipment shed. I have a clean rain diverter and 4" PVC tapped into the top of a 325 gallon tank. There is a second 325 gallon tank piped in through a 2" pipe. I have about 6 feet of fall to the highest edge of the garden. I have a 100' section of drip tube teed in the center with a screen filter to keep out any debris. The drip holes squirt about 6" high when in use. It works great considering it is totally non electric and has no moving parts to wear out.

RalphWD45 · Feb 19, 2015

Leo, the only downfall to the stock tank, is a breeding place for mosquitos. In Jacks system the breeding mosquitoes cant get thru the screen, to lay eggs in the water.

OT: designing a gravity drip irrigation system?

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