[Community_garden] Fire Hydrant Drip Tape

[Fred Conrad]

Greg,
if you're relatively new to this list you may also want to search the
archives for a previous conversation about how plastic barrels may or
may not leach toxins into the water... depending on air temperatures,
duration of storage, all that.
 
also, by the way, i once used a hydrant meter in nearby (to you)
Washington D.C. and within an hour the fire department showed up to see
why the pressure in the lines had dropped.  apparently they have sensors
that are not in place here in Atlanta.
 
good luck, hope the hydrants work for you.
fgc

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From: Gregory Strella [mailto:gregory.strella at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 5:28 PM
To: Fred Conrad
Cc: community_garden at list.communitygarden.org
Subject: Re: [Community_garden] Fire Hydrant Drip Tape


Thanks everyone for your feedback,

Baltimore doesn't require us to use a water meter and, as far as I can
tell, there is no overflow mechanism in this connection.  I'm not sure
what this means in terms of our ability to control pressure, but, I
don't expect we will have to worry about wasting water.  I'm glad to
hear water holding barrels/tanks are suggested with drip irrigation.  We
have seven clean, plastic 55 gal drums ready for action, but we weren't
confident that they could support drip irrigation either until receiving
your input. 

The drip tape arrived in the mail today.  I'm going to pass on this
information to the other gardeners and we will probably begin attempting
to run the drip tape from the hydrant this week or early next.  If we
have difficulty, I think your suggestions give us a lot of variations on
this theme that we can confidently pursue to end our watering woes. 

I will post a synopsis of our experience in a couple of weeks and let
you know whether we opt for a rainbarrel intermediary between the
hydrant and our irrigation.  More responses are certainly welcome in the
mean time. 

Thanks again,

Greg Strella
The Madeira Gardens
The 400 block of N. Madeira St.
Baltimore, MD 21205

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