Installing water service soon

Highbeam · Aug 5, 2008

That is amazing. 120 MGD

Well Mike's water surely is a well fed system. The system typically serves 2-100 people from at least one well and usually includes at least a smallish reservoir for power outages and peak surges in use along with the typical expansion tanks. These systems do not provide fireflow in most cases and they are usually chlorinated only.

I work in a city with about 10,000 people and we also draw water from wells and springs. We use these sources to fill our reservoirs which are between 2 million and 50,000 gallons and up on the hill to provide gravity flow. We chlorinate also with no need for pH adjustment or filtration. Water mains are between 6 and 18".

The neighboring city of Tacoma built several dams on rivers and uses the reservoirs to supply vast amounts of water by gravity. These systems adjust for pH, add chlorine, and also flouride but don't filter as far as I know.

I would love to work for a water district/company/utility. It might be a little boring but water lines are easy compared to the other stuff. Clean water act doesn't get used much on the fresh water side of things, our sewage is treated and sent to the river though with pretty strict guidelines.

mrfrosty · Aug 5, 2008

I am fixing to dig a trench for my water which will be around 340+ ft from the meter to the house. I currently have a tap right next to to the tap I am fixing to hook onto and the pressure is poor. I call the rural water district and complained. They told me to take a psi reading and I did well it was 26 psi. The minimum is 25, so if my pressure was under 25 they would crank it up. The reason my pressure is so poor is because i am pretty much level with the water tower that supplies my water. I ran 1" black rolled pipe last time. I know it probably wont help but I am thinking on running 1.5" black rolled pipe. Is there any advantages of running larger pipe even if your pressure at the meter is low?

_RaT_ · Aug 6, 2008

mrfrosty said:
I am fixing to dig a trench for my water which will be around 340+ ft from the meter to the house. I currently have a tap right next to to the tap I am fixing to hook onto and the pressure is poor. I call the rural water district and complained. They told me to take a psi reading and I did well it was 26 psi. The minimum is 25, so if my pressure was under 25 they would crank it up. The reason my pressure is so poor is because i am pretty much level with the water tower that supplies my water. I ran 1" black rolled pipe last time. I know it probably wont help but I am thinking on running 1.5" black rolled pipe. Is there any advantages of running larger pipe even if your pressure at the meter is low?

You bet. Plan on or (fixin) to run a size larger, it will indeed help. If the utlity company has all gravity feed and your the only one with low pressure, you can fix or plan on one of two things, live with the low pressure or pay increased pumping costs per unit (748 gallons) of water.