Water systems

[blackeagle603]

Time to go shopping for goats Chris.

[TheIrishman]

Was reading through the post again as I didn't notice any filtration the first time...

(two under each building with a wide bed slow sand filter system)

Any info on the slow sand filters or links for basic layouts that could handle that much water? All the sand filters I've seen(other than HUGE commercial/industrial set ups) couldn't handle that much rain.

[Aglifter]

As for underground tanks - water tanks have to be cleaned from time to time - that's going to be a bit more complicated by putting them below ground... Of course, given your winters... How far down is your frost line?

Not if the water is cold (which it is most of the year), and on a continuous flow system; or at least not for years, especially if you saniflush the system periodically... like say every spring and fall...

Frost line is estimated at 330mm (13") in this region, with any buried tanks requires to be 24" below that.

That said, I'd want to go down to six feet below, to maintain year round 58-62 degree soil.

With the saniflush (whatever that might be) it may be fine, but even a coolant system (bouncing regularly from 40 degrees to 185), will quickly grow contamination, if you don't have a sterilizing agent in it.

One of the quickest ways, at least on a coolant system, to detect contamination, is to have a very fine, white filter - and, I'm guessing that groundwater isn't nearly as clean, so seeing anything on the filter is probably not grounds for immediate inspection... Sometimes the dairyman bit kicks in a bit strong...