[RE-wrenches] Well siphon?

[Jerry Shafer]

Now that l am doing the math, No, it can not be done because as you will
always have a vacuum at the highest point you will boil the water even cold
water and create air pockets that will stall the flow. Max lift of water
depending on elevation if about 25 feet then the very low pressure will
begin to boil the water. To do this you will need to keep from having much
of a vacuum at the highest point of the line. Ever consider horizontal
boring?

On Thu, Jan 27, 2022, 1:51 PM William Miller <william at millersolar.com>
wrote:

> Colleagues:
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> All of our water pumping customers to date have been pumping water to
> tanks higher in elevation than the well-head.  Just now I am looking at a
> system pumping to a pond that is lower than the well-head and lower even
> than the bottom of the well.  The 300’ well has the head at 1200’ elevation
> and pumping to a pond at 800’ elevation.  The line goes over a 1500’
> ridge.  If there were nothing impeding the water flow, would it not siphon
> to the pond?
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> Has anyone seen the basic physics available being used to advantage?
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> Thanks in advance.
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>
> William
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> Miller Solar
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