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Pond #2 is about 700' back in the woods...I was just going to buy a few more garden hoses and run them back to the pond..Its a 3hp pump..this too far to run a hose? The main pond has about a 150' downhill run of buried 1/2" pvc. Pond#2 beginning to dry up Because of the drought here in Central Texas...You should see all of the huge trees dying..I've only received a little over 5" of rain this year...this is on top of the drought last year and no end in sight. \:\(


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I have run water through about 500 feet of hose. It's a fairly big amount of drag/friction - flow dropped from 5-6 gpm to just enough to run a power washer.

I'm afraid you'll have trouble getting enough through 700 feet to overcome evaporation, unless the pond is pretty small.


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Sgt911:

While it isn't near the run that you have, I ran 3" pipe (the thin wall stuff that has a bell pre-molded in one end) from my 1 1/4" well pipe to the pond. I think it was a run of 200' to 250'. The elevation was almost the same, in fact, the pond was 1 foot lower in elevation than the outlet of the well. My well pumps 28 gpm, and if I didn't throttle the water back with a ball valve, I had no pressure in the house. A garden hose will have too much restriction over that length of run to make much of a difference due to evaporation like Theo said. It's not only the length of run and the dia of the pipe, it's the change in elevation (if uphill from the well) that you have to fight as well.


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You guys pretty much said it all.Moving water can be pretty tough.


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Turns out it is 1200ft, I am 5 hoses too short...Thanks for help


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I ran the full 1200' I do have flow but like stated abouve, not really enough to beat evap. I think I'm cooling the water down a bit though....I noticed a ton of baby Talapia in the shallows.....and some bass hurding them around....with all the rain in Texas, I still have not got a drop \:\(


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Back in 2006 I ran just over 700 feet of 3/4" hose to my pond when we had a bad drought. My pond is small (about 1/3 acre), and a few feet below my well. I ran the well nonstop for about 3 months and was only able to add about 3 feet of water during that time. As you noted, the fish liked to congregate in the cool water just below the hose. I had the hose suspended about 2 feet over the water to add some aeration, and I think that also attracted the fish.

If I have to do it again, I'm going to bury some thin walled pipe. The hose just adds too much friction to be effective.


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