Lake water pumping

Tom Gardner · 2012-06-26T22:39:17+00:00

The county put city water and sewers in a few years ago at my other place. I still have pumps that I used for well water that I've tried using to pump lake water to water the gardens and lawns. My well is not able to supply more than a trickle anymore, a lot of wells here have gone dry, the lake is down two to three feet over the past ten years, that might be the cause.I split-off all the outside faucets to a separate system. At present, I have 100' of 1.25" line going out into the lake with a well point on the end and it's buried about 2'into the sand. It's clogged again! I've tried three different well points, this one is the finest and has worked the best, almost 6 weeks. I've tried a floating pick-up and a large seine box I made. Nothing has worked well, the lake gets violent and stirs up a lot of stuff, a lot of very fine stuff. None of my neighbors have had any great luck either. Any ideas? (Great year for Walleye so far!)

Lake water pumping

Jun 26, 2012 22 Replies

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Tom Gardner 14 years ago

I watched the videos and what a cool set-up!

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Brian Lawson 14 years ago

Hey Tom,

I did some rapid calculations a few years ago when we moved here about

8 years ago, and found that cost of running the well pump was greater than the cost of water from the city supply.

Brian Lawson, Bot6hwell, Ontario.

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Tom Gardner 14 years ago

It's the sewer charge that's really high. They went way over budget and ran into a lot of solid rock.

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