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White painted underground clay pipes?
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<blockquote data-quote="Alchad" data-source="post: 7912096" data-attributes="member: 143348"><p>Yes, that thought had occurred to me. The reservoir outlet does have a valve although it is not 100% tight, but as an experiment I tried timing how long it took to fill the hole with the valve closed, pump running to fill the reservoir and pump not running . All times were approx 10 minutes which sorts of goes against the clay pipe being filled from the borehole pipework. Interestingly, that was 3 days ago, just tried the experiment again and the time to fill was nearer 15 minutes, which sort of suggests the pipe is to do with land drainage as a few days ago we'd had a lot of rain and the ground was fairly saturated. In the same field there is a ditch which has land drains flowing into it and the ditch empties into a small pond which overflows into a water course. A few days ago there was considerable overflow from the pond, today hardly anything.</p><p></p><p>Re your other question, yes the borehole does still get some water to the reservoir, when I checked a few days back the flow into the reservoir seemed the same as normal but I'll take a bucket up next time I go and do a rough measure and compare with the fill rate measured last year.</p><p></p><p>Thanks for taking the time to reply.</p><p></p><p>Alchad</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alchad, post: 7912096, member: 143348"] Yes, that thought had occurred to me. The reservoir outlet does have a valve although it is not 100% tight, but as an experiment I tried timing how long it took to fill the hole with the valve closed, pump running to fill the reservoir and pump not running . All times were approx 10 minutes which sorts of goes against the clay pipe being filled from the borehole pipework. Interestingly, that was 3 days ago, just tried the experiment again and the time to fill was nearer 15 minutes, which sort of suggests the pipe is to do with land drainage as a few days ago we'd had a lot of rain and the ground was fairly saturated. In the same field there is a ditch which has land drains flowing into it and the ditch empties into a small pond which overflows into a water course. A few days ago there was considerable overflow from the pond, today hardly anything. Re your other question, yes the borehole does still get some water to the reservoir, when I checked a few days back the flow into the reservoir seemed the same as normal but I'll take a bucket up next time I go and do a rough measure and compare with the fill rate measured last year. Thanks for taking the time to reply. Alchad [/QUOTE]
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