They have run rural water in across the road and will come across and put in a curb stop. Some of my neighbors have had water for years. One six miles from me has such poor pressure that he put a 500 gallon tank in his heated garage and fills it with water and pumps out of it into the house. I do not have a heated garage and can only put a tank in the basement that will fit through a walk through 36" door. So if I have low water pressure, what will be the best way to improve it with my situation? I am thinking a shallow well pump and pressure tank hooked to how ever large a tank I can fit through the door? Your thoughts.

Sump pump?

basically you talking about a recirculation system? You can buy ready built systems if you dont want to build your own.

The water company can't turn up the pressure in the meter pit? When we started running the rural water to our feedlot they came and upped the pressure a little.

My water supply from the meter is right at 3/4 of a mile and I have good pressure. I have to wonder if your neighbor ha a smashed or partial plug in his line or too small of a feeder line. I run 1 inch on my feed line

Water company should increase the pressure call them

If that is the issue utility needs to install a pump on transmission line some where to increase the pressure. They need to be notified of this issue and they need to take care of the issue.

There’s a good chance they might say take it or leave it. I put a shallow L pump in the basement to get more pressure out of my artesian well one time and it worked good. I just had a small pressure tank and a shallow well pump and it worked great my wife said why didn’t you do this 20 years ago the artesian wellness didn’t have enough pressure in the house it was great for livestock, but for everything else it was marginal.

They first said I would not get water because of having to add a pump to get the water over a hill to the north. They said they looked and could come 2 miles across country from the west. I don't think turning anything up is an option. I would guess it is all gravity feed. The main is 4", 2" to the curb stop and 1" into the house is what I have been told.

We have rural water here. pressure at the main line tap is ~100psi, reduced to 60 at the meter for the trip back to the house, reduced to 35 inside the house. pressure is not an issue. Twice yearly contaminate tests sent to the house. Water source is Lake Erie and or above ground reservoir's

Never heard of rural water around here. If you aint a city slicker, you have your own well drilled around here. After that, you just pay for the electricity needed to run the pump. The fellers using a shallow pump are on the right track....

Maybe MI has better water? I can not drink my well water. It eats washing machines in two years, water heaters and plumbing. Maybe that is why ND has rural water. The water varies depending on the well. I drill a dry one and that cost $2000, but that was another story.

There's well water around here hit and miss. Where I grew up we had a good well but still took maintenance so my Patents signed on since it went right past our house. Now there's enough customers that Rural Wayer won't take any new customers unless someone will forfeit their meter. My Neice and her hubby are building a new house. There is a meter at an old house across the road from them. Someone is renting the place but the landowner would like them to leave and he would give them his meter. It may come down to them buying land to get possession of the meter. The basement is poured and the house is framed. They're pretty confident they will get water

If you got good water to drill for, that's certainly the way to go.
We had spring water as a kid. My grandparents had a cistern system. When they died and my parents got the house they had the water tested and it was wasn't safe to drink. We cleaned the system. And still tested bad on bacteria and chemical levels. They had to go to the county water. I'm pretty sure it's the same water as the city water.

Midland Co. has (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman) for water unless you’re very, very lucky. Where I was born & raised in the southern half of the County the water was very hard and needed a good softener but I liked then taste but many visitors didn’t.

When I built my house in the northern part of the County I drilled two wells. The first to 200’ and was terribly sulfur smell & taste plus harder than H!. The second well went 403’ and it was pure salt water! Neither well’s water could we drink and both ate fixtures like they were made of wax!!! My nextdoor neighbor put it a crock well down to 32’ and was tested unsafe and could pump it dry trying to wash clothes! I have relatives who live just 1/2 mile outside the City Limits to the NW of town with shallower wells than either of mine and is so salty they have never been able to drink it! Many years ago there used to be a rest stop on old US10(Saginaw Rd) with a flowing well about 7 miles west of Midland City Limits. That water was also so salty that there was even a warning sign erected by it!

Now if “rural” water means water from the nearest municipality there most certainly is rural water in my County. All you have to do it look for the fire hydrants along County roads miles from the City limits and from what I understand, most residents are glad as H to have it though there was a lot of upheaval from some of the residents the lines went by their houses. Most were happy as H and glad to pay for it and others, whether they had “good” water or were just cheap, hated to tie-in and pay! Sucks to be in the minority of who has drinkable water and the majority who doesn’t!!

Mark, maybe I'm a simpleton, but couldn't you install a bladder type tank (think waterbed!?) in your basement and then shallow well pump it upstairs?

Yes, I could and I thought of that. I don't think it would take a huge tank to run water up stairs and to a washer down stairs. I plan on replumbing and replacing all the fixtures.

Your neighbor had the right idea. Think of it as if you had a drilled well that produced a low volume of water. You’d tank it for volume and pump it as long as you had a large enough volume in the tank so that you’d never pump it down to the incoming line pressure/volume. Years ago when low producing dug wells were more common, households used elevated cisterns so that they always had enough volume and allowed the dug well’s rate of fill to stay static constant.

Watter or lack of is what slowed the new subdivision going in across the road from me. Was voted of 19 lots on 20 acres. Water company said no can't support that and will cost millions to run lines that can .
So they are building 4 houses the limit the water company gsve them. Unfortunately they are building them on the side road right on the road where im looming t them just across from where I was planing on building a new house up on my hill.