On Jan 31, 2:10 pm, (Doug Miller) wrote:
In article .com, "Harry K" wrote:

The next thing is depth to water level. A pitcher pump is a suction
pump and you can only suck water about a max of 26 ft.

Theoretical maximum for a suction pump is actually 10.34 meters or 33.9 feet.

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Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.
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If the OP is using a submersible pump it suggest a deepish well?
Surface pumps (especially if nice and snug in ones basement where
easier to get at them under any weather conditions), usually simpler
and cheaper to install and maintain as a single unit.
Also no need to run AC wiring down the pipe to the submersible etc.
Reminds of story here where a guy took a ground level suction pump
back twice as 'defective'. Finally it occurred to the supplier to ask
how deep was the well! "Oh about 30 feet was the reply". Not only 30
feet but well was also slightly downhill of the house adding another
four or five feet to the expected 'lift'! Duh.