Great URL's - thanks muchly! They seem have everything that will be needed.
The question now is whether to sink a well or not.

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Bobby G.


"Grumman-581" wrote in message
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On Mon, 1 May 2006 09:22:31 -0400, "Robert Green"
wrote:
I was hoping for a solution that could be automated the way a transfer
switch and generator work for the electrical supply.

Easy enough to do... You would hook it up just like someone who had a
water well... Instead of the well supplying water to your presurized
water storage tank, the city would act as the water source... You
would have a booster pump that takes the city water and puts it in the
pressurized water storage tank at a higher pressure... If you're not
competent to hook it up yourself, you can hire one of the companies
that do water wells to do it for you... I believe that you can find
all the parts for the project at Home Depot or Lowes, if you're so
inclined...

According to
http://www.do-it-yourself-pumps.com/...ies-page24.pdf

A 120 gallon 75 psi non-bladder is $569, is 24" in diameter and 66"
high... If you need more than 120 gallons, put multiples ones of them
in parallel by attaching a "T" fiting to them...

http://www.watertanks.com/products/0495-025.asp
315 gallons, 36" diameter, 79.5" high, $1,701...

http://www.watertanks.com/category/49/
480 gallons, 42" diameter, 87" high, $2,226...

http://www.watertanks.com/products/0495-040.asp
900 gallons, 42" diameter, 160.5" high, $4,589.99...

You'll need a booster pump something like one of these...
http://www.watertanks.com/category/43/

And various fittings, of course...

End result? It's doable... No big deal... If you've got the money,
someone's got the product for you...