Penny McLoughlin

I'm looking for ways to utilize a year round spring on our property. We are powered by solar and are off grid.

The spring sits in a gully about 400 feet from our house.

Its elevation is about 15 feet above the house level.

Flow rate varies from 5 to 1.5 gallon per minute depending on the time of year.

We have another approximately 100 feet of fall past the spring.

It is very silty, brown water. Like even when I sit a quart of it on the counter for a week, it barely clears at all.

Right now, we get our water from a well that is on grid and store it in a 5000 gallon tank that gravity feeds about 70 feet down hill to our house. That tank is on the high point of our property.

I am wondering if the spring might be a candidate for a ramp pump? If  I could pump it up the hill into another 500 gallon tank we have there and use it for irrigation and emergency water?

I have seen several ramp pump videos but nothing specific for flow rate needed to operate such a pump.

I can't meet on March 7rh as it's the big EMT training for our area but I'm interested in the round table. I'm in Kamiah, ID.

Here's another chicken  feeding with the chickens actually showing up this time

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Dumping the willow candy barrels after sitting for 2 years.

Here's my willow basket made from willows growing along the river.

Here's my tool handle repair.

Here's my 2 five gallon bucket Ruth Stout submission

Making twine from blackberry brambles.

Here's me moving a willow candy barrel.

Here's more seed balls.

Included were

Golden clover
Crimson clover
Lambs quarters
Hairy vetch
Orchard grass
Sainfoin
Apple
Cherry
Dijon radish
Alfalfa