I don't know about sump pumps, but there's lots of choices for potable
water "transfer" pumps. Northern Tool has some 12V ones pretty cheap.
Head pressure was 40' or so, more than enough for what you need. Around
here (Indiana) asphalt shingle roofs come pretreated with a fungicide, is
that something to worry about if you capture the runoff for drinking water?
Ben.....
On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 11:31 AM, Ronnie Day <ronnie.day@gmail.com> wrote:
> We're using rainwater collection at our place. The original setup is pretty
> straight forward, guttering off of a shed roof with several levels of
> initial filtering before the water goes into the tank farm with main
> filtering and treatment between the tanks and the feed line into the house.
> Recently we added an additional 300 square foot roof on the porch and I
> want to collect and get the water from the porch roof into the system.
>
> I'm thinking I should be able to collect this water in a decorative barrel
> or tank and pump it into the main line, preferably ahead of the first flush
> filters. This would involve pumping the water around 35 feet horizontally
> from the front of the house to the back and up maybe 12 to 15 feet.
>
> Shouldn't I be able to use a sump pump to accomplish this? Are there models
> rated for potable water. I'm doing on-line research but I thought I'd throw
> the question out to the group, too. However I accomplish this I plan on
> doing something similar on a large shop I'll have built not too far from
> the house. Collect the water in a smaller tank using a series of screening
> and filtering methods, then pump it into the main tanks.
>
> Thoughts, ideas, questions?
>
> Thanks,
> Ron
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