posted 1 year ago
I like the pump in a locked concrete box/catchment tank idea. My Grundfos pump moves between 2gal (with a single solar panel) and 5gal (w auxiliary generator) per minute up about 200’ vertical over about a 1/2mi run. It is pretty amazing. In your situation it seems to me it may be necessary to find a more gradual path for the pipe, and to stage another catchment tank and pump halfway up. However, as I have thought about the logistics of how my system was built by the prior owner of the property, it makes digging ponds on the high points of the property and rain catchment for any roof, then pumping it up a shorter run for gravity fed pressure seem like a piece of cake.
This is all just my opinion based on a flawed memory