Pipe question
 

We have been on well water for almost thirty years. The seriousness of the drought here has us planning to tie into the treated water that runs under the county road near our property. The challenge is that I will need to trench and install pipe about 700 feet from meter to house. One guy recommended I use polyethylene on a continuous spool. Another said schedule 80 PVC inch and a quarter. Any suggestions from those in know?

The answer will likely depend on your local building codes...

I'd go poly and no joints. Most likely they'll want you to use CTS (copper tubing size comes in a few different colors) rather than black poly tube. Just a guess on my part but most cities went to 3/4 or 1" CTS around here.

What Nick said, we use 1" or 1-1/4" CTS. I think the rolls may be 250 or 500' max, so you will need at least 1 fitting. They are a type of compression fitting, a sleeve slips inside the tubing with a compression fitting/nut to tighten. We bury a tracer wire also, so it can be found with a locator also. Tubing is bedded in sand.

Around here it's inspected/regulated by both code and utility rules.

It’s interesting. I asked the water company about a permit and if they wanted to look at the connections to the meter and house. They said nope. They put a backflow valve between my connection and the meter to keep my well water from getting into their water. That’s all they cared about.

I can see the 1 1/4 due to the length. So whatever you do, consider that advice.

Not sure if this would help, but I recently hired a contractor who specializes in running underground lines for utilities.

Especially needed when going under roadways, etc. They call that procedure horizontal boring.

For this job, I didn't need to go that far mostly needed them to go under a publc roadway - and needed to use a method approved by the city here.

The minimum charge was $1,500, so that was our cost. They use a boring cable to drill the hole and then pull the plastic tubing through. It was a 2" line for us, because I wanted to use a 1" pvc line inside, which I did. They brought the tubing right up to where I did my connection - within' 1 foot. Except for the digging where the tube went in and came out nothing above ground was disturbed. They did all the locates too. Pretty slick!

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Remember, there is a chance that if you tap into the municipal system, that water purveyor can strip you of you overlying rights and make you disable your well. You better check on your water rights.

Exactly what happened here in my town. They cut your feed line and drop the pump into your well. :mad:

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Wow, that sucks and I don't mean literally.

That was the case 15 years ago when the treated water pipe went in. Not enough people bought in because like me wanted to keep their wells. Now they just want an anti siphon valve installed at the meter..

1” poly is all you need. We go 200’ vertically and then 220’ horizontally from our well pump…

Use the 1.25 pipe - better water pressure.

Correction: volume. Well, technically you're right, but low pressure results from not enough volume.