[TheForge] OT: Spring tile question

[David E. Smucker]

Andy,  Google under "spring box"  I think that is where I found things
several years ago.  We reworked an old spring on our land.  When done it
flowed 1.3 gpm in very dry weather and in excess of 20 gpm in wet weather
(Jan Feb here).  In our area "western NC" we used concrete items from the
local septic tank supplier.  The spring box itself was 2 and 1/2 foot square
boxes with open bottom and tops.  We stacked these two high for the spring
box itself.  After digging out the spring with a large back hoe we but
several yards of gravel in the hole and set the spring boxes with an open
bottom on the gravel.  They cast a new "cover" for the boxes.  Then back
filled around the boxes.  We then took a 1 and 1/2 half pvc line with a drop
of about 6 to 8 foot down to a spring tank of 700 gallons.  The bottom half
of a 1500 gallon septic tank with a center divider.  They cast a flat cover
of this, with two openings, one over each half of the tank.  We then ran a 1
and 1/2 inch line down the mountain with a drop of about 80 feet so we have
40 psi water pressure.  We have several sets of over flows.

1.3 gpm is a lot of water, over 1800 gallons per day.  Domestic use is less
than 100 gallons per day per person -- so we have lots of water for a house
plus a garden.  Down side of this was a cost of about $ 5,000 for labor and
materials.  You can cut this a lot if you do the labor and have access to
the back hoe and don't have to clear and build a woods road to get it done.

I can send you pictures off TheForge if you want.

Dave Smucker
Brasstown, NC



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Subject: [TheForge] OT: Spring tile question

Folks,

I have been trying to find information on how to develop springs and am
having a pretty hard time of it.  Here is WV they call the device for
capturing the water a tile.  Searching the net for "spring tile" returns
about fifty trillion pages of all sorts of things wholly unrelated to
springs.

Do any of you know anything about developing springs or of sites that
discuss this?

Thanks in advance.

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