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Apr 6 2012, 03:37 PM
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QUOTE (Exhausted @ Apr 6 2012, 03:33 PM) I live close to a river. Can I, with my own pump, suck water from the river and fill up my water tank and then with my pump, pump the water from my tank over my garden. I think you can as long as not commercial and not more than 200(?) gallons a day. It may be the river has to be adjacent to your property..... Same if you have a well (or dig one) I believe....
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Apr 6 2012, 03:45 PM
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QUOTE (Exhausted @ Apr 6 2012, 04:33 PM) I live close to a river. Can I, with my own pump, suck water from the river and fill up my water tank and then with my pump, pump the water from my tank over my garden. In terms of the hose pipe ban as I understand it the ban is on the use of a hosepipe for carrying water, it doesn't matter whos water or where it comes from, so you can't use a hose to take water from a river, nor can you use a hose to water the garden with used bath water. Actually it depends on what exactly the hosepipe ban says because the water companies have considerable latitude to say what is and isn't allowed. On the river part of the question I thought you had to have an abstraction license to take water from a river even if you were the riparian owner, though I may be wrong. I'm pretty sure NWNR is right about taking water from a well if it's less than a certain (fairly large) limit, but I haven't come accross that for rivers.
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Apr 6 2012, 03:50 PM
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QUOTE (Simon Kirby @ Apr 6 2012, 04:45 PM) In terms of the hose pipe ban as I understand it the ban is on the use of a hosepipe for carrying water, it doesn't matter whos water or where it comes from, so you can't use a hose to take water from a river, nor can you use a hose to water the garden with used bath water. Actually it depends on what exactly the hosepipe ban says because the water companies have considerable latitude to say what is and isn't allowed. Sorry, ignore all that, as I read it the Thames Water restriction applies only to their potable (tap) water, so I don't think there's a problem using the hose with river or well water (though I guess bath water is still covered by the ban unless you bathe in a river or well).
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Apr 6 2012, 03:59 PM
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QUOTE (NWNREADER @ Apr 6 2012, 04:37 PM) I think you can as long as not commercial and not more than 200(?) gallons a day. It may be the river has to be adjacent to your property..... Same if you have a well (or dig one) I believe.... It looks like it's 4,000 gallons a day before you need a license. See here. Of course if you're not the riparian owner then taking water without permission is probably going to be stealing.
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Apr 6 2012, 04:04 PM
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QUOTE (jaycakes @ Apr 6 2012, 02:25 PM) Now I do not count exact amounts of water but I'm pretty sure it would be not a considerable amount of extra water by using a hosepipe. Perhaps 10% extra, but in most cases I believe probably uses the same or less. I am sure you are right, but I can remember reports in years gone by of people setting up a garden sprinkler and leaving it on whilst they went away overnight. That needs to be prevented - yellow lawns quickly recover once the rain returns. But perhaps with more and more households on water meters, that is less likley to happen these days.
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Apr 6 2012, 07:00 PM
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QUOTE (Vodabury @ Apr 6 2012, 05:04 PM) I am sure you are right, but I can remember reports in years gone by of people setting up a garden sprinkler and leaving it on whilst they went away overnight. That needs to be prevented - yellow lawns quickly recover once the rain returns. But perhaps with more and more households on water meters, that is less likley to happen these days. I did away with the traditional lawn in the front garden. It seemed like a radical thing to do at the time, but we have a tree and shrub border and sizable pond with planting round it, and I absolutely love it.
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Apr 6 2012, 10:19 PM
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QUOTE (Vodabury @ Apr 6 2012, 05:04 PM) I am sure you are right, but I can remember reports in years gone by of people setting up a garden sprinkler and leaving it on whilst they went away overnight. Yes that's very stupid and these people should be shot. Also Simon I thought you could use a hosepipe to dispense water collected from a water butt for example? I would. And eff da po-leece if they came to throw me in da slammer.
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Apr 7 2012, 12:09 PM
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well_002__640x415_.jpg ( 273.02K )
Number of downloads: 18So it sounds as if I can pump with a hosepipe from my well. But as folk know after a couple of flagons of cider the plants get well watered. Ask Bob Flowerdew. He used "waste" water to get compost fruity on TV years ago. The water is good ...I tried it on a cat who enjoyed the cool natural taste. Well there is an advert for you.I am sure someone has thought of that already though. Perhaps I should bottle it and blackmarket it when the real droughts hit.. Still we planted things that could survive as we were not there all the time. So I guess we thought of drought friendly planting many years ago in Norfolk. The soil is rubbish anyway mostly fire cinders over 150 years. Water just runs off. ce
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Apr 7 2012, 01:24 PM
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QUOTE (Nothing Much @ Apr 7 2012, 01:12 PM) It worked... my first attempt at a .jpeg. Watching the history of "Queen" last night. (Not my cup of Horlicks really) "There is no stopping me now". What japes to be had. ce A fine programme... You go up in my estimation
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Apr 8 2012, 08:31 AM
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QUOTE (NWNREADER @ Apr 8 2012, 09:27 AM) Poor Mr Benyon - it seems he has been 'got at' by journos... According to The Telegraph today a journo and photographer found a hose running at his property.... He says they turned it on It is stated he has called in Plod to investigate. Original story: http://www.people.co.uk/news/uk-world-news...02039-23817573/
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Apr 8 2012, 09:20 AM
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QUOTE (Simon Kirby @ Apr 6 2012, 04:50 PM) Sorry, ignore all that, as I read it the Thames Water restriction applies only to their potable (tap) water, so I don't think there's a problem using the hose with river or well water (though I guess bath water is still covered by the ban unless you bathe in a river or well). I think you are wrong. The regulations apply to a hosepipe connected to a tap dispensing the water company's mains supply. Using a hosepipe to syphon water out of a domestic bath is surely OK. There is no restriction on how much water you can put in your bath, nor how many times you can use it. Any method of transferring that bath water onto the garden, whether by hose or bucket, is perfectly legitimate.
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Apr 8 2012, 09:30 AM
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QUOTE (Brewmaster @ Apr 8 2012, 10:20 AM) I think you are wrong. The regulations apply to a hosepipe connected to a tap dispensing the water company's mains supply. Using a hosepipe to syphon water out of a domestic bath is surely OK. There is no restriction on how much water you can put in your bath, nor how many times you can use it. Any method of transferring that bath water onto the garden, whether by hose or bucket, is perfectly legitimate. I think Simon is right. You must not use a hosepipe to dispense water that Thames Water has processed. 'Potable' means water treated to drinkable standards. Thames Water Utilities Limited gives notice to all of its customers, that the potable* water it supplies throughout its entire area must not be used for the following purposes:
* Water treated to drinkable standards.http://www.thameswater.co.uk/cps/rde/xchg/...s.xsl/15443.htm
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