Edgar Gutierrez
New Member
Hey all, i have a situation i could use some help on. i have a 350 gallon galvanized tank that is set up as follows. Water is fed from 100' well to the bottom the tank. At the same level ( actually about two feet from the bottom of the floor is where it feeds in) where it feeds in, on opposite side of tank there is a spigot where a water hose was attached. about a foot from the top of the tank there is a outlet that sends water to tank up hill about 100' where water is held, filtered, then pumper to house. opposite outlet is a pressure gauge. there are check valves before galvanized tank and after gate valve at outlet side where a union is between tank and one way valve . I dont know if its ok to run just the way it is, i believe pressure was built up by emptying tank then opening union to allow air in as tank was draining. there is no pressure relief valve any where on this system and the water is shut off when a float valve in upper storage tank restricts flow. i currently use a float switch with a two wire submersible pump that doesn't require a pressure switch to activate the pump via the pump control box. The owner has bought a new three wire with pump control box and wants to use the galvanized tank. (it is currently pumping directly to holding tank and bypassing galvanized tank) My question then is, what needs to be included to make this a safe and trouble free system? Or do we remove tank and buy a bladder type tank. I believe they used the galvanized because the water is very turbid.