Gayflower: 2024 water system and 2025 potential improvements

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IBC Tote Replacement

• New totes will be ordered from The Cary Company for delivery to Empire
  • The existing PVC-based connection between the totes and the pump in the front is too fragile.
  • The connection in the back is too thin, since the harbor freight pump wants 1" diameter intake.
• Here's a sketch of my current thinking for new plumbing between the totes:

Each tote comes with a 2" camlock valve. Our tote vendor, Cary, can provide an adapter to 3/4" garden hoses.

At this adapter we install an extra inline valve so it's easy to turn on and off.

We use short, standard, 3/4" garden hoses (1' - 5' depending on situation) - readily available from Amazon.

The "tee" connection is designed to combine two hoses as one 1" NPT. It would combine:

• a 1" Female x 1" Female x 1" Male NPT tee pipe (make sure to get actual NPT)
• with two 3/4" GHT Female x 1" Male NPT adapters

Because the intake for the pump wants 1", and each tote is constrained via a garden hose fitting to only 3/4 of an inch, we need to open at least two totes at a time to provide enough water flow.

Once everything is scaled up to 1" NPT, we'll use Aeromixer 1" hoses. These have the benefit of handling a lot of water flow and being highly flexible.