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  1. J

    Well Pump No Longer Keeps Up With Sprinklers

    Thanks for the tips. It'd be great to make it easy to connect the water pump to our generator, as bottled water only gets you so far. Ideally I'd forgo the cistern, but I guess it all depends on what kind of well recovery rate we're able to get. As far as the well house, if I'm going to insulate...
  2. J

    Well Pump No Longer Keeps Up With Sprinklers

    Yes, we have a septic tank. Luckily we had it replaced before we moved in, and the drain field is in decent shape. I know the well company that we're going with uses Franklin motors, but I don't have the details on the pump yet. I've heard that Gould stopped using Franklin motors back in...
  3. J

    Well Pump No Longer Keeps Up With Sprinklers

    Thanks! We should have a great well when everything is said and done. It's just unfortunate the path that we have to take to get there.
  4. J

    Well Pump No Longer Keeps Up With Sprinklers

    Well, I've got the problem figured out. We bought this home two years ago, and it turns out that the MLS listing, the property disclosure, and even our home inspector all stated that we had a drilled well with a submersible water pump. So, the local well company and I set off on a trek through...
  5. J

    Well Pump No Longer Keeps Up With Sprinklers

    I recently noticed that my rotary lawn sprinklers are no longer spraying as far as they used to, and the spray pattern from each nozzle has gone from the typical "spray" to more of a singular stream. I have a 12-zone system, with 3-4 sprinklers on each zone. Most sprinkler nozzles are 4.0 gpm...
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