Re: OT - Does anyone know how to tap a water spring?

Posted by JRT on June 25, 2007 at 22:31:28 from (71.125.105.184):

In Reply to: OT - Does anyone know how to tap a water spring? posted by Todd in SE Ohio on June 25, 2007 at 14:30:47:

To capture a spring properly you have to start digging where the water comes out of the ground and dig until you find the rock aquafer where the water is coming out. That could be 100 ft or more from where the water is coming out of the ground. Once you have found the aquafer shovel everything out clean where you have sort of a bowel of water with a rock bottem with no sand or mud. Take a piece of 10 ft long, 4" PVC pipe and place a cap over the end of it. Bore 1/2" holes in the pipe on the capped side for a distance of about the length of your pool of water. Lay the end with the holes down in the pool flat and then dump 2 to 3 bags of dry premixed cement(comes in bags) over the pipe to create a dam. Fill in behind the dam with a couple of wheelbarrow loads of washed stone (1 to 1-1/2"). Cover that whole mess up with a piece of plastic and cover it all up with dirt. You don't have to wait for the cement to set up. It will set up under ground. If you fix it right, nice clean water will run out that pipe forever. You can narrow down to 1-1/2 or 2" pipe to run the water where you want it to go.

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