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<blockquote data-quote="Alchad" data-source="post: 7910370" data-attributes="member: 143348"><p>Thanks for the comments.</p><p></p><p>Update - photo of the pipe below, the hole fills from the situation below to overflowing the hole in 10 minutes, and through a small hole in the white pipe water can be seen flowing at a fair rate and the pipe appears to be running virtually full, but as I said above I'm scratching around trying to figure where it discharges to, quite a puzzle!</p><p></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1006273[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Related question - see the map below which shows our farm water system (the borehole is near the house, it pumps via timer control to a reservoir in the hills above the house and then feeds the house and farm via gravity from the reservoir). The dotted red line is the pipework supply to/from the reservoir and the "T"'s are water troughs.</p><p></p><p>We lost pressure on Xmas eve and with the borehole pump running for it's usual (in winter) couple of hours a day the reservoir drains completely overnight. I have checked around for leaks etc and found water coming out of the ground and dug down to find this white pipe which I THINK is unrelated to my loss of borehole water. However just curious as to the white pipe and it's purpose - as can be seen on the map, there is a dotted line running from two points identified as "fp" on the map - blue arrows. The slope of the land is from top to bottom of the map and from left to right. FP definitely doesn't stand for footpath - we have others on the farm which <strong>are</strong> on this map, but not shown, so can't be that, so does anybody have any idea what "fp" can stand for? The only bit of info which might be relevant is that in the field with the top blue arrow there is a pond which is always full of water and I wondered if the "fp" was some sort of water supply from this pond to the house back in times gone by??</p><p></p><p>AS I said, this originally came up whilst trying to find the source of the water leakage. I have checked and rechecked all possible potential sources - water troughs, farm buildings and walked the place many times but there is no obvious sign of a leak. My logic says that because the water is completely drained out overnight with nothing at all at the house of farm buildings the leak MUST be at a location around the house/farm buildings/borehole, or at a lower location. Otherwise with a leak higher up, there would at least be some flow at the house until the section of pipe between the leak and house was drained??</p><p></p><p>Any suggestions very grateful received</p><p></p><p>Alchad</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1006272[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alchad, post: 7910370, member: 143348"] Thanks for the comments. Update - photo of the pipe below, the hole fills from the situation below to overflowing the hole in 10 minutes, and through a small hole in the white pipe water can be seen flowing at a fair rate and the pipe appears to be running virtually full, but as I said above I'm scratching around trying to figure where it discharges to, quite a puzzle! [ATTACH type="full"]1006273[/ATTACH] Related question - see the map below which shows our farm water system (the borehole is near the house, it pumps via timer control to a reservoir in the hills above the house and then feeds the house and farm via gravity from the reservoir). The dotted red line is the pipework supply to/from the reservoir and the "T"'s are water troughs. We lost pressure on Xmas eve and with the borehole pump running for it's usual (in winter) couple of hours a day the reservoir drains completely overnight. I have checked around for leaks etc and found water coming out of the ground and dug down to find this white pipe which I THINK is unrelated to my loss of borehole water. However just curious as to the white pipe and it's purpose - as can be seen on the map, there is a dotted line running from two points identified as "fp" on the map - blue arrows. The slope of the land is from top to bottom of the map and from left to right. FP definitely doesn't stand for footpath - we have others on the farm which [B]are[/B] on this map, but not shown, so can't be that, so does anybody have any idea what "fp" can stand for? The only bit of info which might be relevant is that in the field with the top blue arrow there is a pond which is always full of water and I wondered if the "fp" was some sort of water supply from this pond to the house back in times gone by?? AS I said, this originally came up whilst trying to find the source of the water leakage. I have checked and rechecked all possible potential sources - water troughs, farm buildings and walked the place many times but there is no obvious sign of a leak. My logic says that because the water is completely drained out overnight with nothing at all at the house of farm buildings the leak MUST be at a location around the house/farm buildings/borehole, or at a lower location. Otherwise with a leak higher up, there would at least be some flow at the house until the section of pipe between the leak and house was drained?? Any suggestions very grateful received Alchad [ATTACH type="full"]1006272[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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