[AT] Off Topic Goulds piston pump

[David Bruce]

All I'm saying is my parent's well is about 250' and the original pump 
was not submerged.

David
NW NC

On 6/6/2012 2:26 PM, Larry Goss wrote:
> It is a physical impossibility to LIFT water over one atmosphere of pressure (around 28 feet).  You can push it with a submerged or jet pump, but you have to have the actual pumping action (jet, turbine, cylinder, etc, within 28 vertical feet of the top of the water for it to do anything.
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> Larry