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Chris,

 

Welcome to the board!

To answer your question, well yes and no. Your idea sound good, about pumping it up to a reservoir. You can stock pile water for when you do not have electricity or fuel to pump plus you can take advantage of rain water as well. But this would be very expensive unless you have unlimited supply of labor. Better yet would just have a giant holding tank (40K gal or better). This would be cheaper to build but then you need to look at your supply of power.

 

PVC is what they call it, some places it is easy to get. We are lucky in our area as many international groups area moving into the area to assist small (1 to 20 manzana) farmers. So a lot of technical support is moving in.

 

You also need to look at your slope to see how much pressure you will get out of the fall line. This will not be an issue if you want to use “bubblers” and not sprinklers.

 

A good place to get information is youtube, they have it all as everyone is looking to get their 15 minutes of fame, look there for some info.

 

You can also email me at onemore42 “at” yahoo “dot” com

 

Cory