Well gpm part 2, trickle systems

[canfossi]

I have booked the flow rate test for Monday. The people interested in buying my house want to see if the gpm's from my well will support a trickle system? What is this trickle system anyways? I'm assuming it will trickle into my cistern, but how does it work? Hope you can clarify this. Thanks Chris

[fordson major]

only trickle system i have heard of is a trickle irrigation system. they did not want a bact or metals tests?

[canfossi]

No water test yet, but I'm going to put some bleach down today just in case. There is a thing that you can have well water slowly trickle into a holding tank/cistern if your well gets low sometimes, but I'm not sure what it's called. Chris

[vicker]

I have friends with what you may be talking about. They had a problem, at times, with demand being larger than their well could provide. They now have a 100 Gal. cistern under the house, with a pump and pressure tank system.
When water level in the tank falls, a float switch turns in the wel pump
The well pump pumps water into the cystern
The jet pump pumps water into the pressure tank. From there its into the house.

[canfossi]

Vicker, that kind of sounds like the thing I am talking about. Do they have a trench from the well to the cistern or is all the plumbing inside the house near the tanks etc? DO you know what the system is actually called? Thanks Chris

[agmantoo]

I am unaware of a single name to describe the system you reference. What you would have is a pumped low output well/source feeding a cistern/tank that has a booster pump and pressure tank for the house needs. Many folks in hilly country have a gravity fed spring water similar system that supplies continuous water to the cistern/tank and then that reservoir is used to supply water to a pumped system used to maintain pressure for the house.