Comments on: Friday Shorts http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/uncategorized/friday-shorts-4/ Photos and Front Porch Musing from Floyd County Virginia Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:46:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Sean Pecor http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/uncategorized/friday-shorts-4/comment-page-1/#comment-1352 Sean Pecor Sat, 01 Sep 2007 18:36:15 +0000 http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/2007/08/31/friday-shorts-4/#comment-1352 On water supply. We have an interesting setup for our home and horse farm. We have one well for both. The well water supply T's, with one line heading to the barns and the other to our basement. In our basement, water is pumped into a 300 gallon sealed spherical cistern. The cistern has a float valve. When water is required in the house, the cistern (with its own pump) pumps water into our expansion tank and supplies the house with regulated water pressure. For us the chief benefits of this setup are a) we only require one well for farm and house because b) when water is being heavily utilized in the barns water pressure in the house is not affected in the slightest. In your case, were you to have, say, a 100 gallon water cistern in your home fed by what I assume is a spring, then overnight your cistern would replenish itself and your expansion tank would help provide even pressure for showers and such. The reserve in the cistern would be constantly replenished when water isn't in use, so you'd be able to live with a very low volume water supply of even 1 gallon per minute. I don't know how deep our well is but it must really be in the money spot and set pretty dang deep, because even during this dry summer we have gotten at least 15gpm at the barns. Our new neighbors property, now under construction, is only getting 4gpm from his well, and his is 400' deep! But he's decided to take the well drillers up on their offer of 50% the second well. His theory is that he might be able to use the first 4gpm well for some sort of a geothermal system. Sean On water supply. We have an interesting setup for our home and horse farm. We have one well for both. The well water supply T’s, with one line heading to the barns and the other to our basement. In our basement, water is pumped into a 300 gallon sealed spherical cistern. The cistern has a float valve. When water is required in the house, the cistern (with its own pump) pumps water into our expansion tank and supplies the house with regulated water pressure. For us the chief benefits of this setup are a) we only require one well for farm and house because b) when water is being heavily utilized in the barns water pressure in the house is not affected in the slightest.

In your case, were you to have, say, a 100 gallon water cistern in your home fed by what I assume is a spring, then overnight your cistern would replenish itself and your expansion tank would help provide even pressure for showers and such. The reserve in the cistern would be constantly replenished when water isn’t in use, so you’d be able to live with a very low volume water supply of even 1 gallon per minute.

I don’t know how deep our well is but it must really be in the money spot and set pretty dang deep, because even during this dry summer we have gotten at least 15gpm at the barns. Our new neighbors property, now under construction, is only getting 4gpm from his well, and his is 400′ deep! But he’s decided to take the well drillers up on their offer of 50% the second well. His theory is that he might be able to use the first 4gpm well for some sort of a geothermal system.

Sean

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