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  • From: <sunnfarm AT netscape.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Long above ground water line advice
  • Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 08:57:19 -0700

3/4" pipe is way too small your not saving money. You will probably end up
tossing the pipe and spending more money to get a lagrer pipe in the end. Try
black PE tubing 1.5" or 2". Layflat is also very good. One major problem with
white pvc is algae growing in the pipe... Bob.

--- NanHildreth AT riseup.net wrote:

From: Nan Hildreth <NanHildreth AT riseup.net>
To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>, "Market Farming"
<market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Long above ground water line advice
Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 09:14:15 -0500

To reduce friction pressue loss over 900', you may want to use a 1"
pipe or larger unless it's flowing downhill. Formulas on friction
loss http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/hazen-williams-water-d_797.html

We ran 500' of 1/2 pipe from our well to our orchard but had to
replace it with 1" Schedule 20 pvc from Lowes at
.14/ft.
http://www.lowes.com/pd_23993-1814-PVC+20010++0600_0_?productId=3133107&Ntt=200psi&Ntk=i_products&pl=1&currentURL=/pl__0__s?newSearch=true$Ntt=200psi

ABecause it is thinner walled, it is more vulnerable to frost, sun
than schedule 40.

At 07:13 PM 5/3/2010, Bill Bradshaw wrote:
>In my area (East Texas) regular sec. 40 pvc is cheaper than EMT.
>3/4" pvc is $.11 cents per ft. If you have to cross a creek why not
>get water from the creek, It would be closer? But then you would
>need a pump. Unless it could be siphoned to your garden. Bill in Texas
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <mailto:joe AT tittiger.com>Joe Tittiger
>To: <mailto:Market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>Market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
>Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2010 2:02 PM
>Subject: [Market-farming] Long above ground water line advice
> I am in a money pinch and need to run water to a garden that is
> about 900' and below my well. The least expensive way to do so that
> I have discovered is to use 3/4" grey EMT with bell ends above
> ground. It is stamped as "PVC" the same as the white pipe. I
> will have to cross the rock shrewn drive twice, a horse pasture,
> and a spring fed creek.
> Can anyone give me some feed back on the pros and cons on going this route?
>
>Thanks for your input! :-)
>
>
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