Hi All: We are working hard this winter to get water for the 2009 growing season at a community garden that has struggled without it for over 20 years.
We have gotten municipal permission to install an irrigation well as this would be cheaper than connecting to city water at this location. We are debating over whether to install an electric well pump (partially dependent on how much money we can raise -- at a cost at least $6,000) or a hand/ human powered pump (cost of around $3,500). The well contractors tell us the well would need to be 170' and the static water would be at ~50'. Are there others who have experience with hand powered pumps at this depth? Are there folks out there that have any creative human powered pumps such as merry go rounds or ones like the "money maker" http://kickstart.org/tech/technologies/micro-irrigation.html pump that is available in Africa? Thanks for your input, Anne Rauscher The Garden Project P.O. Box 30161 Lansing, MI 48909-7661 Phone: 517-887-4660 Fax: 517-887-4551 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org
