If you're looking to use a natural water supply for irrigating your landscape, or if you need to increase the pressure of the potable water supply for your irrigation system, you've found the right provider. At Irrigation Tech, we specialize in providing or coordinating custom pump solutions for lakefront properties as well as properties with ponds, wells, or low-pressure public water supplies.
Pumps for Non-Potable Water Supplies
If you want or need to irrigate your property using water from a lake, pond, well or creek we can do this using a stainless steel or composite submersible pump. This type of pump is commonly known as a well pump. The entire pump is submerged in the body of water in a protective sleeve. When the irrigation system cycles on, the pump is turned on and water is pushed up into the sprinkler system. This creates the volume and pressure needed so the water comes out of the sprinkler heads at the appropriate pressure and volume for optimal performance. The pump continues running until the final zone ends and turns off.
The size of the well pump is determined by us based on the pressure and volume you need to operate your irrigation system.
Supplying your irrigation system from a non-potable water supply will save money on a water bill to operate your system. It also eliminates the permitting process and cost to install and annually inspect a New York State-required backflow prevention device.
Booster Pumps for Potable Water Supplies
If your irrigation system is going to use water from your city or municipality, it is likely plumbed into your property’s basement or a mechanical closet. Most properties in the Finger Lakes Region have static water pressure measured in pounds per square inch (psi) of between 40psi and 130psi. For an irrigation system to work properly, there must be at least 65psi of pressure, and we prefer at least 70psi. We prefer a higher incoming psi because pressure fluctuates downward during periods of high demand, and with a higher starting pressure we can be reasonably sure that there will still be enough static pressure during periods of high demand or seasonally low supply for your system to operate properly.
If your property’s water pressure is too low to support a lawn sprinkler system, we have a solution, it’s called a booster pump and we can install it in your basement or mechanical closet. With a booster pump, we can make almost any irrigation system work properly.
Here’s how a booster pump works:
We use pumps supplied by different manufacturers (e.g., Goulds, Simer, and others) depending on the type and size of the pump. The pump we select and install, and how we install it, or another party installs it, will be specific to your water supply source, line size, and pressure, as well as where the pump will be located (e.g., basement, mechanical closet, well, in a lake or pond).