Stopped and visited with Ken 9/08/04.  He said might have some water later.  He called that afternoon and said I could run the small sprinkler and he would call when to shut it off.  Decided to attempt to read the meter.  Appears I am the only user on the pipe (our "ditch").

Had turned on West Sprinkler so this reading 15 to 25 minutes stale. Of this "got the water" usage.
Needle waving between 2 and nearly 5 115,679,000  
Calculate Rate of Flow: (New Reading-Old Reading)/lapsed time in minutes New Reading - Old Reading

Hours and Minutes Lapsed

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Needle waving between 2 and nearly 5  

 

  
44,000/371
118.6 Gallons per Minute		 115,725 - 115,679
44,000 gallons


15:09:16 - 08:48:04
6hours 11mins 12secs

  
 
Needle fairly steady at 5 and above - some more water usage that myself on the line?  Leak ;-)  see below -no difference!    
116,000/1004
115.6 Gallons per Minute		 115,841 - 115,725
116,000 gallons

07:52:51 - 15:09:16
8hours 50mins 45sec to new day
16hours 43mins 36 secs

  
 
Needle steady like near 2.
Measured area hit by birds - figuring towards inches of moisture!!!
*birds be sprinkler heads (rainbird dialect).		 115,899 - 115,841
58,000 gallons

16:43:48 - 07:52:51
8hours51mins

  
58,000/531
109.2 Gallons per Minute		    
The next reading has 3 more birds on the sideroll.    
109,500 gallons/863.5
127.8 Gallons per Minute

 

 116,008,500 - 115,899,000
109,500 gallons

07:07:15 - 16:43:48
7:16:12  hours to new day
14hrs 23mins 27secs
SO- 3 birds more increase usage by some 18.6gallons/minute
therefore the birds are putting out 6.2 gallons per minute.  Pressure dependant: to what degree I don't know.
77,000 gallons/ 617 minutes
124.8 Gallons per Minute		 116,085,500 - 116,008,500
77,000 gallons

17:24:10 - 07:07:15

10hrs 16mins 55secs
115,500 gallons/ 895

129.1 gallons per minute

 116,201,000 - 116,085,500
115,500 gallons

17:24:10 - 08:19:06
6:35:50 to midnight

14hrs 54mins 56secs
Added one more pipe/rainbird sprinkler to end of SR
72,000 gallons / 484 minutes

148.7 gallons per minute

 116,273,000 - 116,201,000
72,000 gallons

17:13:09 - 08:19:06
8hrs 4mins 3 secs
1 more bird accounts for 6 gal/min
but the 10 others - could it be Mom watering the garden.  Said she turned on the water around 4 ( 1 1/4 hour??) Shut the garden water off around 6:30PM
112,000 gallons/ 802 minutes

139.7 gallons/minute

 116,385,000 - 116,273,000
112,000 gallons

17:13:09 - 06:35:17
6hrs:46mins:51secs to midnight
13hrs 22mins 08secs
Macro setting on camera sans flash: need to supply light.
169,000 gallons /  672 minutes
251.5 gallons per minute		 116,554,000 - 116,385,000
169,000 gallons

18:07:10 - 06:35:17
11hrs 31mins 53secs
Big jump in consumption, Chuck has BigGun going and Mom is watering garden and lawn.
Appears with one look and a rough estimate that Chuck is using around 100 gal/min if Mom is as estimated yesterday using about 10.  (That's looking at it quickly without much data) This estimate will increase as it assumes Chuck turned BG on around 7 this morning.  Turned Mom's water off around 1900.
213,000 gallons / 841 minutes
253.3 gallons per minute		 116,767,000 - 116,554,000
213,000 gallons

08:08:29 - 18:07:10
5hrs 52mins 50 sec to midnight
14hrs 01mins 19secs
Used 140gal/min with SR : No garden water : Chuck is using 110 gal/min ( may be other users but did not see any)
161,500 gallons / 621 minutes
260.1 gallons per  minute		 116,928,500 - 116,767,000
161,500 gallons

18:29:44 - 08:08:29
10hrs 21mins 15secs
196,000 gallons /  766 minutes
255.9 gallons per minute		 117,124,500 - 116,928,500
196,000 gallons

07:15:32 - 18:29:44
5hrs 30mins 16 secs until midnight
12hrs 45mins 48secs
143,500 gallons / 573
250.4 gallons per minute

Turn off SR before taking this pic, normally take pic and then shut off SR.  Calculated gpm would be on the low side.

 117,268,000 - 117, 124,500
43,500 gallons

16:48:57 - 07:15:32
9hrs 33mins 25secs
Had a senior-moment and opened the wrong covering, uncovered a veritable low life in the water-distribution -business!
235,000 gallons / 860 minutes
273.3 gallons per minute		 117,503,000 - 117,268,000
235,000 gallons

06:58:29 - 16:48:57
7hrs 21mins 3secs until midnight
14hrs 19mins 32secs
171,500 gallons / 635 minutes
270.1 gallons per minute		 117,674,500 - 117,503,000
171,500 gallons

17:33:27 - 06:58:29
10hrs 34mins 58secs
West SR switched to east risers.  Went to turn on East SR but cattle rubbed off sediment bowl!!!  Put Big Gun out instead.
315,000 gallons / 801minutes

393.3 gallons per minute

 117,990,000 - 117,674,500
315,500 (WOW BG)

06:55:11 - 17:33:37
6hrs26mins23secs until midnight
13hrs 21mins 34secs
Drastic change, one thinks mistake - if not, the Big Gun is using 123.2 gallons per minute be ITSELF!!!
West SR and the BG may be using nearly same amount of water - something to discern when opportunity presents itself.
Used BG this morning couple hours, and got the East SR going around 0900.
294,500 / 629
468.2 gallons per minute		 (figured as above)
282,000 / 708
398.3 gallons per minute		 (skipped documenting calculations)
Running E and W SR and Chuck running his BG Probably should skip whole exercise
But getting a notion of hardware outputs.
217,000 / 613
354 gallons per minute
Shut East SR down.  Ran BG until turned East SR on about 3 in the afternoon.
313,00 gallons / 1051 minutes
297.8 gallons per minute
Both SR going...shut off for long time while moving/draining and ran BG.  When set @ 11AM had on both SR and BG.  Chuck watering BG and Mom running her hose.  Should be larger GPM this evenng's reading
218,000 gallons / 415 minutes
525.3 gallons per minute		 119,414,000 - 119,196.000
218,000 gallons

18:12:26 - 11:17:21
6hrs55mins05secs or
415mins
East SR and West SR and BG and Chuck's BG and Mom watering yard with garden hoses.  High end normal usage.  Once I attempted to replace valve opener by "bleeding of pressure" opened several valves free flowing.  That caused some 15,000 gallons usage in small time ( before I was into the "meter-compulsion-business") so gpm was not deducted.  This is a very high usage on our pipe.
After the above reading shut down West SR.  Running BG and East over night.  Garden/Yard off.
327,000 gallons / 847 minutes
386.1 gallons per minute		 Note:No evening hrs water change
BG runs around 140 gpm according to the above trial

Only the East SR running at thing time and Chuck's BG
382,000 gallons / 23hrs 49mins OR 1,429 mins
267.3 gallons per minute
148,000 gallons / 9hrs 38mins or 578mins
256.1 gallons per minute
Added 3 sprinklers to East BG right at dark so gpm reading on 9/22 will increase morning and be "accurate" increase by evening
120,506,000 - 120,271,000

and 0812 from yesterdays 1745
[No Picture]  Meter read at 1830 hours 9/22/04
120,673,000
post above reading noted Chuck is off: next reading will be only the East SR.  Nothing else running.  It will be off tomorrow morning.  Will take two pics: before shutting off and after it is off.
Last pic water is off and had been off since 0930 hrs
Chuck is running riser on ground, no BG.  Will get another reading to determine how much he is putting out.  Need a feel for usage, care not what is being used as he is only one watering.
16,000 gallons / 4,123 minutes
3.9 gallons per minute		 121,248,000 - 121,232,000
16,000 gallons

09/27/04 1543hours -9/24 1304
2days 21hrs 21minutes OR
4,124minutes
Seems low, looked at Chucks Valve and it seemed to flow more than that, perhaps it has been off sometime over the time period.
do the math later?
do math later
do math later???
Can do the math in my head!!!  Nothing zip, zilch and not a drop !!!!
But, note the gallons per minute gauge reads 250 gallons per minute flow when flow is zero!
This reads121, 269
Chuck is still running alittle water.
Flow Meter seems to be stuck... but will get pic tomorrow and determine if there is any flow.  Did not see any water usage.