Steeve.Gi wrote:The situation :
I just bought a house in Alsace, in the Vosges mountains. In my garden on a hill, a trickle of water flows which is collected in a concrete tank with a capacity of about 300 liters.
Alas I do not know if this water is the catchment of a source or the drainage of the mountain.
My problems :
1) I would like to filter this water before my tank. The water is generally very clear except in recent days, with the heavy rain it was cloudy white, and I do not know if there is sometimes sand. So I prefer to prevent than cure before my tank is too dirty. So I would like to know how to make a filter at a lower cost. I thought I would use blue aquarium foam filters.
2) Since this "source" delivers about 300 l / h
Well a source is always the result of drainage that infiltrates ...
To filter at a lower cost: sand filter ...
300L / h is a high flow source! a priori it will only use a small part of the flow to store ... a friend has a source that flows between 5L / h (summer) and 100L / h big maximum / hour (analyzed drinking water) and there everything goes in the underground tank of 2m3 without filtration, too full evacuated in a stream, but it is necessary to drain and clean 1x year (water used for the drink) to evacuate the silts ...