Just trying to get a sense of what families use. Seems we’re around 9K with three young kids and a garden.
Forrest
Just trying to get a sense of what families use. Seems we’re around 9K with three young kids and a garden.
Forrest
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We are on a well, but our water softner has a little readout. I've checked it before and I just checked it again.
Our average GPD usually runs between 120 and 140.
Just two of us - showers, laundry, dishwasher, etc. No kids, no lawn sprinkling.
Is that per week ?
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Around 140 gal. per day, according to the readout on the softener. 3 kids, no lawn watering, but some garden watering. (Oops, that doesn't go through the softener though). House is 6+ yrs old, so has water saving toilets etc.
septic system is designed for 450 gal per day, for a 3 bedroom house.
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No - per month. Guess that's a little under 300 per day.
Forrest
Assuming that is per month, that is doing pretty good. Septic design here calls for 90 gal / day / person more or less.
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On a well,
when the Grandkids play on the dirt piles in the summer and build dams and canyons, they can run the hose at 15 GPM for hours at a time (drains to the pond)
Have used quite a few thousand gallons a day like that. GKs can't do that at their house on city water bill.
When testing well, pumped 29 gal/min (pump limit) for 2 days in August one time without slowing down, lotta 'usage' then.
We too are BLESSED with a great aquafier. Every year for the past 24yrs. we have filled our 30,000 gallon pool. Turn on the 3/4 line spigot and 72 hrs later we've got a full pool. No filters either, aside from the water in Alaska it's the best tasteing I have ever had. Located in West. Co. NY. 600+ feet deep.
I use an estimating number of 1000 to 1500 gal per month per person plus additional consumption via swimming/spa pools, water features, and garden/lanscape features.
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Prior to moving to new place with sod that I'm trying to keep alive- ~98 GPD (two adults and two <3 children)
Now, with manual irrigation, 280 GPD.
Jon Blakemore
RappahannockINC.com Fredericksburg, VA
Typical is around 60 gpd/person average daily flow for residential use.