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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] pumps and grey water systems
  • Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 00:15:33 -0400

mitshell wrote:

Recently completed building a water purification system using barrels filled
with stone and water plants. Water runs thru 14 barrels that are lined up
serially.

Grey water or black water?

It then fills up 500 liter bucket that I then want to use to water the
garden which is located uphill

I was thinking of using a pump to pump up the water to the computerized
water irrigation system that I currently use to time the watering. However
doing this is now problematic in that I can not hook up the pump to turn on
only when the timed irrigation system turns on. If I cant do this I run the
risk of having the pump on when the system is off and thus bursting a pipe

Any body with experience in this area

Pump uphill to another stoarge tank upstream of the controlled irrigation
system.
Put a float valve in this last tank with switch to activate the pump that
fills it
when it needs filling or topping off.





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