permaculture

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>]

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.