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<blockquote data-quote="TexasRancher" data-source="post: 1753249" data-attributes="member: 8359"><p>I'm, not an expert, only an electrical engineer. If it were my project and a new bridge was going in and they wanted my barge gone and pump up 15 feet higher....I too would be concerned about priming and maintaining that prime. That said, I would check and see how much rate-flow i really needed....can i get away with 2,000. gallons per minute for a longer duty cycle to make up 5,500 gallon per minute? The reason i'm asking that need for flow rate and duty cycle is my solution would be (get rid of the single large pump and priming nightmare altogether) and put a long steel pipe across the shore and use multiple stainless steel deep well submersible pumps at 300 to 500 gallons/minute. You might find you only need five of them....and if one fails after 6 year....you're only down 1/5th a fraction of water....and they're fairly inexpensive too. A stringer of submersible pumps is what I would do. No barge, no singular fail point pump, no expensive contractors needs...just a low hung metal support pipe for all the submersibles to hang from and hoses/ PVC piping up. That's me...Mr. Cheap, simple, hidden (pumps) and redundant system....keep your money in your bank account, land holdings or in gold/silver.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TexasRancher, post: 1753249, member: 8359"] I'm, not an expert, only an electrical engineer. If it were my project and a new bridge was going in and they wanted my barge gone and pump up 15 feet higher....I too would be concerned about priming and maintaining that prime. That said, I would check and see how much rate-flow i really needed....can i get away with 2,000. gallons per minute for a longer duty cycle to make up 5,500 gallon per minute? The reason i'm asking that need for flow rate and duty cycle is my solution would be (get rid of the single large pump and priming nightmare altogether) and put a long steel pipe across the shore and use multiple stainless steel deep well submersible pumps at 300 to 500 gallons/minute. You might find you only need five of them....and if one fails after 6 year....you're only down 1/5th a fraction of water....and they're fairly inexpensive too. A stringer of submersible pumps is what I would do. No barge, no singular fail point pump, no expensive contractors needs...just a low hung metal support pipe for all the submersibles to hang from and hoses/ PVC piping up. That's me...Mr. Cheap, simple, hidden (pumps) and redundant system....keep your money in your bank account, land holdings or in gold/silver. [/QUOTE]
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