Water status June 20, 2010
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Water from the spring is at the rate of about 6 gallons per minute.
Water is circulating through all tanks, except tank 2 is closed off as a reserve. Overflow is from tank 1.
Water status May 8, 2010
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Measuring the water situation.
Water from spring is at rate of five gallons in 26 secs or 10.71 gals per minute.
Tanks are laid out as below:
Bl (#1) Gr (#2) Gr (#3)
Gr (#4) Gr (#5)
Tank status:
Tank Valve Fill
- Open 24″
- Closed 8″
- Open 24″
- Open 24″
- Open 24″
“Valve” is the position of the bottom valve. If the valve is closed, then the water level will not change (unless a leak!). If the valve is open, the water will seek the level of the other tanks with open valves.
“Fill” is the measurement from the top of cover to water level. A reading of 8″ is full to capacity. One inch of fill requires 30.7 gallons of water.
So, we need 64 inches (16 inches in 4 tanks) of fill to bring all five tanks to full capacity. 64 inches equals 1964 gallons (64 times 30.7). At 10.71 gals per minute that will take 183 minutes to fill or about three hours.
All tanks were filled to capacity and valves in tanks 3 and 5 open and others closed.
