Water Water Everywhere

It doesn’t seem right that after a good drenching of rain during the night totaling about three quarters of an inch, I would have a post about plumbing and more specifically about not one but two different water sources at the same time. Yet here is the story that is going on today.

Our well for the house normally supplies us with the absolute best drinking drinking water. In order for it to be the best, the water coming out of the ground needs a little tweaking. It goes through filtration and osmosis before traveling a complex system that adds pH back to the water that was taken out during filtration. A couple of weeks ago, we noticed a small leak surrounding a pump that does the initial filtration. Looking into fixing it ourselves (meaning Mike) we  realized it was much more complex than we (again Mike) could not do the repairs.

While we were waiting on the parts to come in so our local water gurus, HPS (Hillsboro Pipe and Supply) could do the repairs, the irrigation suction started having issues. For some reason we  (you guessed it, Mike again) was unable to keep a prime for the pump and it would lose suction resulting in no water pressure.

After an afternoon of using the pitcher-pump like handle to manually bring water up to pump and losing prime over and over, we (this time both of us) had to dismantle the suction pipe from the pump to the water source, clean and straighten it before we could reconnect to get the equipment back to fully functional. This was just in time for all the rain and nature filled the stock tanks for us.

Currently, with the cattle tanks all filled, now we just have to have the repairs finished in the pump house for the domestic water use for us humans to have everything back to normal. Until something else breaks…

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