I'm looking for advice on an irrigation pump. Our neighborhood well has capacity issues and we would like to use the lake for our drip irrigation system.
Since it's a drip system I only need about 30lbs or so of pressure. It's divided into different segments so there's maybe 100 or so 1 gallon per hour drippers per segment. So my volume requirement is only a few gpm.
The big (to me anyway) problem is that the lake is about 250 feet horizontally and 30 or so feet vertically from where I would have to put the pump. This is because the lake is army corp controlled and used for flood control. Running wire is not an option both because of the flood control and the corp won't let you. I'm guessing I can use check valves to keep the water in the line but I'm not sure how well that works?
So I need a pump that can deal with a long distance and lift from the water source. Any others familiar with pumps and can suggest what I ought to be looking at? Of course money is not unlimited so economical is also a requirement. Thanks all.