We’ve been receiving fair amount of rain… another .67” today. While the weather cooperates and things are dry, we feel the need to accomplish things and mark them off our list. Yesterday, Vernon, Brandon and I pulled the pipe trailer out to the new solar project. If you recall, I told how we’d fought the system until, in a last ditch attempt, Brandon changed some settings and it’s been pumping water up the hill like a champ.
Once the storage tank was full, the overflow was running down hill into a reservoir, but so much was soaking into the ground. Measuring the flow at the top and bottom proved that it would be worth the purchase of pipe to add on and run it in a pipeline downhill to the reservoir.
The bands holding the pipe are cut. The unit can then be spun, controlling the unrolling of the pipe as it is drug downhill.
Brandon grabs the end and begins to pull. Following the water, crawling under junipers, around obstacles, he heads for the reservoir. Over 700 feet later, they call it good. The pipe is cut and attached to the overflow pipe. We will check on the fullness of the reservoir after a while to see if it is holding. It was a fairly straightforward job and every drop of water is appreciated… even if it has been raining!
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More kudos to the guys to save as much rainfall as possible. Sounds like
this will work just fine.