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1. Cummings John C

   
   6/9/2012 7:06 PM

   The course I currently work for pumps out of a small river. The irrigation system (heads, foot valves, etc) is full of debris from twigs to rust to small stones.
   
   
   For those of you that pump out of creeks or rivers, what do you use for filtering prior to the source getting to the heads? "Amiad" filters and screens come to mind, but I've never had the need for them. Do you use manual filters, semi-automatic, or automatic?

   
   
   
   
2. Timothy Walker

   

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   6/9/2012 9:06 PM

   screen and/or flush pump at the intake point

   
   
   
   
3. Dennis Cook

   

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   6/11/2012 11:06 AM

   John we pump out of a river that can get pretty ugly after a storm and we just have the normal intake screens on the end of the floating intakes, but we also have a wye strainer with auto backflush that helps out a ton

   
   
   
   
4. Baker Daniel

   
   6/11/2012 4:06 PM

   Dennis,
   
   could you share a little more on the wye strainer with the flush for the rest of us. I've never seen one large enough to do the job for the pipe sizes we run (14").
   
   Also, I've got experience with the Amiad and the Varney filters. They look really impressive on top of the skid but I have never gotten them to run consistenely for any period of time, no matter how much maintenance we do do them.

   
   
   
   
5. Dennis Cook

   

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   6/15/2012 7:06 PM

   Daniel, the wye strain er we have is in front of our 12" pipe inside the pumphouse. I think the pipe exiting the dual 75 horse pumps is eight inch before it goes to twelve. The wye strainer has a solenoid valve on it and my rain bird pump station has an auto timer deal in the computer that flushes every so many hours of run time. When the solenoid valve kicks open the crap blows out through a three inch pipe back into the water source.