This is another reason to have a holding tank to feed into the downpipe of a ram pump, besides excluding sediment and bubbles. You can save up a day's water and just pump it once a day to the main gravity-feed storage tank. This siphon stage requires a small vertical drop of its own, so in extreme cases like ours, where there is barely three feet of vertical drop, a very shallow holding tank is in order, so as to not take up much of the vertical drop (fortunately the problem I mentioned previously about having too slow a trickle through the downpipe isn't likely to happen with piping of at least 1/2", so nearly always the holding tank can be just inches tall).
In the mean time, the dry took its toll on the creek. It was still flowing but not enough to operate a RAM pump.
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