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Hi all,
I have a sizable pond that I would like to water my yard out of. I would install a rainbird underground system and use a pond filter. I haven't figured out which pump to use yet. I understand that I need to do some calculations to figure out which one. Do and of you irrigate out of a pond / lake? If so please share some pics or descriptions of how you irrigate your lawn out of your pond / lake.
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You would be surprised how much water it takes to irrigate grass. It may make sense to use a pump to fill a storage tank or cistern, then another not so expensive pump in the tank to provide the pressure to run the irrigation system.
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I have been told by people in LasVagas that to keep grass green there, it takes 10ft of water over that grass each year. A good watering for grass should be 1". You can do the math. One acre 1" deep is 27,150 gallons.
Last edited by Bill Cody; 07/17/16 12:37 PM.
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Hi all,
I have a sizable pond that I would like to water my yard out of. I would install a rainbird underground system and use a pond filter. I haven't figured out which pump to use yet. I understand that I need to do some calculations to figure out which one. Do and of you irrigate out of a pond / lake? If so please share some pics or descriptions of how you irrigate your lawn out of your pond / lake. If you have the water. Here most all golf courses use their pond systems as tanks for irrigation. They also fill their ponds with minimum five deep wells. Cheers Don.
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