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Set up a Downhill Water Siphon - PEP BB plumbing.sand.tiny.siphon

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This is a badge bit (BB) that is part of the PEP curriculum.  Completing this BB is part of getting the sand badge in Plumbing.

In this Badge Bit, you will set up a siphon from a water source downhill to a location, and move at least 20 gallons. Indoor sources are ok.  (Note that this BB is part of a 6-part choose your own adventure list BB called the Tiny List. You must complete six Badge Bits in the Tiny List.)

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To complete this BB, the minimum requirements are:
 - set up a siphon from a water source downhill to a location
 - the siphon should move at least 20 gallons

To show you've completed this Badge Bit, you must provide:
   - a picture of the water source without the siphon
   - a picture of you setting up the siphon
   - a picture of water arriving somewhere else
   - OR a 2-minute video of you doing this
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Who keeps taking baths here? Are you doing BB's again?

Water (I'm rounding down)
6" deep x 47" long x 21" wide = 5922 cubic inches = 3.4 cubic feet = 25 gallons

I used a long tube to the "pond" BB in the backyard, and established the siphon with a squeeze bulb pump.

Here's a quick video of the water flowing:
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Source, 47" long
Source, 47" long
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Source, 21" wide
Source, 21" wide
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Source, 6" deep
Source, 6" deep
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Water source with siphon
Water source with siphon
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Setting up siphon
Setting up siphon
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Water running to pond without pump
Water running to pond without pump

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I am going to try to hook up our gutters to drain water into my pond but need some more manpower to move our water storage barrels out of the way. First, I am going to make sure that my water collection barrel and drain pipes are working. My test was very successful, the mix and match pipes and tubes I found connected well enough to drain well. The 25ish gallons of water that was sent down them drained in less than 5 minutes.
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Rain collection barrel full
Rain collection barrel full
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Pipes hooked up
Pipes hooked up
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Water running from metal pipe to plastic
Water running from metal pipe to plastic
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And from the plastic to the pond
And from the plastic to the pond
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Barrel drained
Barrel drained

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Note: Please explain how your system meets the  - a picture of you setting up the siphon requirement. In other words is it a drain or a siphon? 

 
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Here is my submission for "Set up a Downhill Water Siphon - PEP BB plumbing.sand.tiny.siphon":

I am providing photos of the following:
  - a picture of the water source without the siphon
  - a picture of you setting up the siphon
  - a picture of water arriving somewhere else
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large water tub before siphon
large water tub before siphon
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setting up siphon: filling short hose with water
setting up siphon: filling short hose with water
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setting up: starting siphoning water onto ground by tub
setting up: starting siphoning water onto ground by tub
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setting up: attaching longer hose
setting up: attaching longer hose
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setting up: securing end of hose in tank
setting up: securing end of hose in tank
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Water arriving to plants!
Water arriving to plants!
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Left this sub pump container outside and it filled up with water. It was time to use the sub pump container, so I needed to move the water to a more useful spot. ( Which happened to be one of my frog pond projects.)

I used an old garden hose, and emptied it into the old frog pond. Based on the measurements there was  ~27gal

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Container Filled w/ Water
Container Filled w/ Water
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Measurements Width
Measurements Width
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Measurements Depth
Measurements Depth
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Hose In
Hose In
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Flowing into the Frog Pond
Flowing into the Frog Pond

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We store water for power outages in 50gal barrels and it had been a year or two since they were emptied and refilled so I worked on that a bit. I used our old siphon to drain most of the water into our ditch (estimate 40gal) and I dump the rest now that I can actually move it.
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Old location of barrels
Old location of barrels
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Emptying barrels
Emptying barrels
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adding pipe
adding pipe
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syphon working well
syphon working well
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Siphon outflow
Siphon outflow
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System set up
System set up

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I have several barrels of water which I filled before our irrigation was shut off for the season. I needed some today to try to seal a tiny pond, which had a conduit running an inch below where I stopped digging so didn’t work out :(

Regardless, the siphon was relatively easy to start and got me well over 20 gallons.
I didn’t want to muck about with air bubbles nor having to suck on the hose, so I submerged the entire thing, closed the valves on the Y, lifted the end out, and opened the valves to fill my vessels.

The white bucket is 3.5gal, the blue jug is 7gal, and the black tub is somewhere north of 14gal.  
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Water source without siphon
Water source without siphon
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Putting in the hose
Putting in the hose
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Submerged
Submerged
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Valves closed
Valves closed
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Filling two at once
Filling two at once
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All full!
All full!
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Less full!!
Less full!!
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