Water Shortages In Surin - July 2019
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nomad97
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No need to be offensive GL.Find out you lazy twat. and what size is it?
Rice
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This was the big red water truck ...
Mind you, I am not so sure about the water ......................
It's wet at least. My wife received a phone call last night from the water truck operator. She had ordered 1,000 litres and he told her that she would now only receive 500 litres. They are rationing the deliveries to 500 litres maximum. Sounds like they have 7 trucks doing the rounds to deliver water to housing in the city and surrounds.
They did not reuse the shite wagon did they?
gotlost
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gotlost
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Back on subject. What size is the bore?
nomad97
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About 5' 10" I think, but I haven't seen him in a while so he may be taller or shorter.
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nomad97
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@gotlost, far from being a 'lazy twat', I have exercised my legs and strolled to the nearby borehole with out the aid of an electrical shopping trolley. Judge for your self but I would interpret the following photo of the installation as such:
It is a similar/identical pump to the one I first illustrated, the Hitachi DT-P300XS. It looks like it is a 2 inch bore with the second down pipe terminating above ground level. From the charts and illustrations, the single jet pipe going down to the water table would limit the pumping depth to a maximum of 18 metres. This single jet configuration is good for a water table between 12 to 18 meters. Ergo, the water table lies somewhere in this range.
P.S. @gotlost, this detective work is all you are going to get. The effort required to 'fire-up' my wife to ask the questions required of a knowledgeable person, if one could find one that is, especially at the wrong time of the month when SWMBO is suffering from B.S.E., by far exceeds the possible return. Moreover, while strolling down to the pump site I was engaged in a conversation with a budding entrepreneur. He had his motorbike and caged sidecar loaded with 2 black dustbins brimming with water freshly pumped from the borehole. I think he was trying to sell me some water. Finally, I have now seen water pumping from this borehole, 100 metres from where we live, at a very reasonable flow rate, with a similar/identical pump to the Hitachi DT-P3000XS that sells for under 10,000 baht. I will go to Global and HomePro this morning to check out prices.
nomad97
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Very good.
gotlost
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nomad97
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Thanks GL, I am convinced too. I went to Global this morning and determined this pump comes in 2 configurations; the first is a single jet and is good for 12 to 18 metres and the second is a dual jet good for 18 to 30 metres. Finally, the first pump is 7,990 baht while the second dual jet pump is 9,990 baht. I only need the single jet pump at 7,990 bat. Global has both on display and the assistant was very helpful. I also looked at submersibles with a 3 in dia starting at 7,500 baht. I asked the shop assistant which one he recommended. He very quickly said the Hitachi for the simple reason it came with a 10 year guarantee while the submersible only had 12 months.A 2 inch bore and your pump selection will do the job with no problem.
I also went up to the reservoir this morning to the point where the quarry water is being diverted down a gully. The gully has an earthen dam before the bridge over the road with some, but not a lot, of water behind it. The other side of the bridge, the reservoir side, is dry as is the trench that was dug to carry the water flow across the reservoir to the outlet into town. Having seen a non-hive of activity this morning I am not optimistic we will see water tomorrow.
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Thanks GL, I am convinced too. I went to Global this morning and determined this pump comes in 2 configurations; the first is a single jet and is good for 12 to 18 metres and the second is a dual jet good for 18 to 30 metres. Finally, the first pump is 7,990 baht while the second dual jet pump is 9,990 baht. I only need the single jet pump at 7,990 bat. Global has both on display and the assistant was very helpful. I also looked at submersibles with a 3 in dia starting at 7,500 baht. I asked the shop assistant which one he recommended. He very quickly said the Hitachi for the simple reason it came with a 10 year guarantee while the submersible only had 12 months.
I also went up to the reservoir this morning to the point where the quarry water is being diverted down a gully. The gully has an earthen dam before the bridge over the road with some, but not a lot, of water behind it. The other side of the bridge, the reservoir side, is dry as is the trench that was dug to carry the water flow across the reservoir to the outlet into town. Having seen a non-hive of activity this morning I am not optimistic we will see water tomorrow.
Conceivably the shop assistant is on a higher commission with the Hitachi.
gotlost
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Just returned from Prasat. The rice on the 214 is seriously stunted for lake of rain. In my 13 years of traveling that highway I have never seen it look like this bad. Me wife cousin and partner who work at Makro and live in Surin have been driving nightly back to Kap Choeng to take a shower get water. Her mom or my wife aunt lives about 100 meters from us..the bright side is she brings my orders from Makro & BigC.
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We, along with several of our neighbouring houses, have employed a pro to bore in our respective gardens. Refer to Nomad's post #200 and that's what we have installed. The cost of the drilling to 18 metres, the pump, piping, and the electrics (to a nearby weatherproof housing) was 13,000THB. In addition, I used 4 leftover floor tiles to form a temporary base, and bought 20 curved bricks @12THB each to make a 40cm high platform for the pump. It was all installed a fortnight ago, and has only been used twice (after testing) when our city-fed 1,000 litre tank emptied, but we were away from last Monday to Saturday. The water works topped up our tank three times prior to our leaving, all FOC. I refuse to fill that tank with unfiltered, untreated water from the bore hole, and the new pump alone is adequate to deliver water throughout our 2 storey house, albeit at slightly reduced pressure compared to our old pump by the tank. A series of 4 valves needs changing over whenever we swap supplies between the tank and the bore hole. One of these is on the house-side of the meter and is there (in the present absence of a non-return valve) to prevent water being pumped from the borehole to the city system. The non-return valve is due to be fitted today.
Total cost therefore was 13,240 THB
Total cost therefore was 13,240 THB
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Prakhonchai Nick
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Looks identical to my set up, other than I have a Lucky StarDeep Well pump. I have no filters or anything on the water. It pumps direct through my home, no tank, and the water is far cleaner than that which flows through the village piping.
My installer told me at the time (some 17 years ago) that whilst there was water not too far down, he had to bore to 44 metres to ensure clean water. Whether that was the case or not I will never know.
My installer told me at the time (some 17 years ago) that whilst there was water not too far down, he had to bore to 44 metres to ensure clean water. Whether that was the case or not I will never know.
