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im pretty sure that pipe through the sides of the pond came about early on when she decided she couldnt afford the ditch or outside pipework, i spose its a bit hard to understand what we were talking about without pics if youve never seen a farm.
i have used such pond joining pipes like kfgs between ponds to move water from a big rain catchment through topping up the first second third fourth and fifth.
though these were just on ponds with growing yabbies, certainly you cannot beat a pump feed to each pond from your well, it was a cheap way of moving water round a dodgily set up farm. i hated that farm when it came to filling ponds, no pipework no decent pumps. i think kfg can get a cheap second hand pump thatll work for a longwhile, ive used one twenty years old and its fine.an old sewerage pump.
that idea of steves with the manifold and one lenght of pipe linking them at sump level is a really really good idea, ive never seen that in operation but itd work so well, it kills a coupla birds with one stone. id seriouslyt look into that one later when there was some cash flow.
if the ponds are lined up well you can excavate a trench and put pipework in later but it wouldve cost way less to do it early as the walls went up.
it might cost a thousand bucks in pipes alone so im guessing thats why you went the other quick way. id say about 3 grand and youve got everything you need.
i think what steves saying is have a run of pipe at sump level (or just below)run it all the way along the outside of the ponds. (that pipe feeds to a harvest box area on outside of ponds in a suitable access spot).
each pond on the inside has its own standpipe hooked to a t off that pipeline..that can be tilted on its elbow collar, if all ponds have a standpipe in place you can tilt one over to fill another pond, likewise you can pump from the well into one end of that pipework,your filling pond would have its standpipe lowered and it will fill that pond for you. heck thats a good idea. its one pipework for real easy harvesting, water exchanges, effluent water to waste, seeding, filling from well, saving water, recycling..
thats me on the next farm. maybe even 8 inch pipe, i spose in harvesting time you could run fresh or fresher water into the sump and or pipes to flush em through the line to the harvest box.
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