How I Turned Dirty Ground water into pure drinking water

Some years back I decided to buy some land in the hills of Texas. It absolutely was rough land, all rock with extreme cliffs and deep valleys. The elevation of the property put us several feet above the water table so making it rather expensive to drill a well. But the property had one thing going for it. Someplace in that hill was a large abyss that might capture the rain water, while it rained.

Currently this water was not gushing out of the hill, it really only came out at approximately half a gallon per minute. There was no manner to tap into the source thus we were stuck with the slow flow. We in time gave the system a name; we called it the hamster bowl.

The hamster bowl finally ends up as a little pool of water about three hundred feet from our residence. There is leaves, grime, fish, snakes as well as bugs swimming all in that water. The deer, hogs, turkey and additional animals come back to drink there too. Now it had been our turn to drink from the hamster bowel as well.

The target was to turn bad water into good water without using high pressure or high dollar filters and such. Therefore we were restricted to the strategies we may use. The other drawback was that the flow rate was such that we were restricted as to how much water we could collect from the bowl while not hurting the natural scheme. During normal circumstances we were obtaining approximately half a gallon per minute of flow rate, this translated to just over 700 gallons per day of total water. We decided to take about a 3rd of that.

The system is quite simple. We setup a solar panel to power a pump that is located in the hamster bowl. Throughout the day the pump comes on, if needed, and pumps water from the pool up to a holding tank of nearly five hundred gallons. If the tank is full the pump will not come on. This is often triggered by a float switch within the primary holding tank that will tell the pump controller if the tank is full or not. Now keep in mind this 1st tank is simply dirty water with bugs and all.

From this 1st holding tank the water is gravity fed to a smaller tank crammed with gravel and sand. This smaller tank features a float valve that only opens when the water is dwindling in that tank. The dirty water flows into the filter tank, conjointly called a slow sand filter, and slowly moves through the layers of sand and gravel. This progress polishes the water and gets rid of 99.99% of all impurities. The slow filter can process almost 15 gallons per hour or 360 gallons ow water per day. We have a tendency to never use that much therefore it never goes dry.

Once the water is cleaned via the slow sand filter it is gravity fed into the final holding tank. The top of this holding tank is simply on top of the outlet of the sand filter. Once the last holding tank is full, the water from the sand filter is unable to leave the filter tank therefore causing the filter tank valve to close up. Once the filter tank valve is closed the unclean water holding tank fills up and triggers the float switch that turns off the solar pump. It's all very straightforward and very cost effective.

Therefore this is how we turned our dirty ground water into refreshing usable drinking water for our house. You'll find slow sand filter designs on the net with watch videos on how they work on varied video sites. There are a number of manufactures for these types of filters but you'll be able to make them just as well.

By: Richard J Harington

Article Source: http://www.directorys.uniquearticles.info

Richard Harington spends most of his time working to find solutions to dust control and alternative conservation and ecological projects not only for work but for pleasure as well.

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