Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Assembling the Irrigation Pipe

My husband has been busy this November with Trench Digging for Our Irrigation System and now, with the continued good weather, assembling the tubing in situ. He cut all of the PVC piping and spent today gluing the flexible hosing to the pipes.
This is how it looked at the end of the day.
A little background information: We have been working with our local National Resources Conservation Services (NRCS) who provided us a grant for installing this irrigation system in 2013. In 2014, we received an extension on our grant and followed up by Drilling a Well and actually finding a well with enough water (40 gallons/minute) capacity to irrigate our vineyard. We worked with Civil Engineer, Dan Pietro, who designed the irrigation system, but the procurement of the parts and the implementation was my husband's brainchild.
During the afternoon, we were able to put the assembled piping into the trench and then cover the piping with stone dust. We took into account the fact that it would rain on Thursday, November 19th. The rain should help even out the stone dust that is on the trench. We also have an appointment with the NRCS on Friday, who will come out to inspect our work.

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