Well well.

Not too sure about this Mike but I seem to remember that all water belongs to the water authority and you have to pay for it even from your own well. If their water floods your home it becomes your water and you have to get rid of it.

Bill

So their water is flooding my hole and I am getting rid of it by pumping it onto the garden. Its ok though, I won't tell if you don't.

Thinking about this. The cottage we owned had a private water supply from a spring and we paid nothing to the water authority, yet they did know about it as they kept reminding us to test it.

Mike

On the other side of the coin an old mine near me, (non productive gypsom mine) has to pay a licence fee to extract water from it AND a fee to discharge said water into a nearby stream!

Don't help with your question though does it :)

Jb

Checking the water is a good idea before going any further, my daughter found a well under an old flag stone in her yard.The water was stagnant and smelly not even fit for watering. The law may be different between domestic and manufactures a company I worked had a well and they paid for there water but at a reduced rate.

Bill

I'd be very surprised if you could not find a submersible pump that would pump that far. 14 metres is only about 32 feet, which is equivalent to one atmosphere pressure which is 15 lbs/sq inch in old money.There's one here which will do 17 metres

Andy

It's not a place you use to park the car is it?

Before shelling out for a pump, make sure you know the flow rate at the maximum quoted head of water. unscrupulous dealers could quote the max head at zero flow which wont be much help. Also allow for the frictional loss in the distribution hose. A vague memory tells me this increases as 1 over the cube of the hose diameter.

I expect you will need more like 2hp for the pump which will consume

Bob

Funny you should ask that, we often do!

Mike

handy for draining out the old oil ........

... nice to see that whilst it may lift 17 meters it only comes fitted with

Yes. My sort of mathematics relies on a yard being equal to a metre!

How thick was the tarmac you drilled through?

Mike replied [by email...]

I use a water butt self-filled from a rainwater downpipe for this purpose. Probably worth asking yourself if you are heading off down an complicated route to solve a simple problem.

I do already have 2 water butts but they don't supply anywhere near enough water in the summer. SWMBO likes dozens of pots and tubs around the house and yard which take a lot of watering. To do the lot takes an hour with the hosepipe.

Mike

It doesn't need to take her that long.

Rob Graham

Funny you should say that, I was going to ask to make sure it's not just a hole with years of spillage from car washes, expansion tank over flows and rain seepage!

You need to look into the legal aspect I know that there are many laws, or at least regulations regarding extracting water from your own land in agriculture and there is some difference for example between a natural spring and a hold in the ground that could be filled with water due to underground water movements.

As with all authorities, the water board will always - legally - be right in any 'misunderstanding' argument at law. This, of course, means that you may need to pay someone a staggering sum of money to locate and prove the source of the water, after all, it could be a broken water main that has seeped down into a hole in your property - on the other hand, if you believe in global warming, your house may be about to sail off into the sunset somewhere!

If it's anything like here it won't take her any time at all! My wife also loves pots and hanging baskets and it takes ME about 30 minutes to water them.

Likewise, the wife and kids own 14 fish, whilst I own none. The wife and kids never feed or check on any fish whilst I look after 14.

I suspect there may be a similar pattern throughout this group!