Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations electric pond pump help

This is the pump that I use and I have two of them in our pond. IT is a brushless pump and we have had one that runs our water fall running for four years now and I have not even pulled it from the pond or touched it in the four years.

Both pumps are set up with a milk crate around them to stop the big trash the screen on the pump is good enough for anything more like minnows or anything like that.

I have a sump plump float set on the one in the creek that we fill our pond with. The float is set so when the water in the creek is gone mid summer the pump will turn off. I have this milk crate set inside a laundry tub with 1.5" holes drilled in the sides. This acts like a pit. When I do it again I will just use a cement well casing.

The pump and milk crate is set in the pit on top of a flat rock. When sediment comes down stream it will settle below the rock and my pick up of the pump. This pump is hooked into a 2" flexible hose into a 2" hard plastic that is buried in the ground. Come October I will let the pump run full blast all winter long and extra water will run out the over flow.

I do not run a foot valve or check valve. We pump about 15 feet in elevation so when the pump shuts off the water in the 2" line runs back to our pit in the creek. I have had way to much trouble with foot valves and check valves sticking shut or slowly freezing they are not worth using.

These 2 pumps are about $15 a month to run and we pay 25 cents per KW delivered taxes in.

Same as above I will loose about 6"s a week in evaporation and ground absorption. This pump will put that 6"s back in our pond in now time. These pumps with out brushes pump way more than what they are rated for.

Cheers Don.