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Pasture water option...opinions wanted
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<blockquote data-quote="TexasRancher" data-source="post: 1768058" data-attributes="member: 8359"><p>Does your pond ever dry-up in the last 20 years (drought wise)? If not...I'd go with the well situated near the pond. You Do Not want to be at the mercy of a water department and metered water...just extra costs.</p><p>If it were my land...here's what Mr. Cheap would do. Rent or get a back-hoe and dig at a low spot near the pond...you can be 30 to 100 feet away from the pond's edge, try to get down at least 15 feet to 30 foot deep...20 is good enough....make it a nice large "U" scooped-up well. You can encased it with a galvanized culvert pipe with holes in it...if you're worried about the dirt ever falling back in (soft non-rocky soil). DO NOT connect the pond to the culvert well...water will find it's way in and back fill fine. Pond to well semi-isolation filtration is a better idea. Buy a $150. stainless-steel 4" well pump, 120vac and place it at the bottom of you culvert well...run 3/4" black water pipe from the well to all areas (straight line best just below frost line) of your 45 acre grazing paddocks with in-ground covered isolation valves for each sectional water tank. (you can meter the individual valves to fill all tanks at once!!!, and using level floats for cut-off on all tanks)</p><p>Now here's the best part...$200. 2kw emergency generator at your barn or feed center...just pull cord start it....and let the water fill the tanks while you're on site...once or twice a week. Minimal gas and minimal maintenance.</p><p>Sorry...i would not do solar or batteries on site...and i would not physically duct, trench and connect the pond to a deeper well. Make it and the land cleaner...let the pond be the pond and the easy culvert-pipe well be a well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TexasRancher, post: 1768058, member: 8359"] Does your pond ever dry-up in the last 20 years (drought wise)? If not...I'd go with the well situated near the pond. You Do Not want to be at the mercy of a water department and metered water...just extra costs. If it were my land...here's what Mr. Cheap would do. Rent or get a back-hoe and dig at a low spot near the pond...you can be 30 to 100 feet away from the pond's edge, try to get down at least 15 feet to 30 foot deep...20 is good enough....make it a nice large "U" scooped-up well. You can encased it with a galvanized culvert pipe with holes in it...if you're worried about the dirt ever falling back in (soft non-rocky soil). DO NOT connect the pond to the culvert well...water will find it's way in and back fill fine. Pond to well semi-isolation filtration is a better idea. Buy a $150. stainless-steel 4" well pump, 120vac and place it at the bottom of you culvert well...run 3/4" black water pipe from the well to all areas (straight line best just below frost line) of your 45 acre grazing paddocks with in-ground covered isolation valves for each sectional water tank. (you can meter the individual valves to fill all tanks at once!!!, and using level floats for cut-off on all tanks) Now here's the best part...$200. 2kw emergency generator at your barn or feed center...just pull cord start it....and let the water fill the tanks while you're on site...once or twice a week. Minimal gas and minimal maintenance. Sorry...i would not do solar or batteries on site...and i would not physically duct, trench and connect the pond to a deeper well. Make it and the land cleaner...let the pond be the pond and the easy culvert-pipe well be a well. [/QUOTE]
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