During our rural water supply seminar in Grande Prairie, Alberta last summer, we had the opportunity to work with a number of different pumping arrangements at the dump sites and fill sites. The folks wanted to try out the use of a 150 gpm trash pump to transfer water between dump tanks - it worked fine. Granted - it did not move as much water as a 6-inch jet siphon, but it was able to help support the 500 gpm flow that we had established using three dump tanks. If one had two trash pumps, then that set-up might work just as well as a single jet siphon.

It is important to note that a trash pump generally does not develop sufficient pressure to make a jet siphon work. Thus when using a trash pump, it is just best to take suction from one dump tank and transfer directly into another dump tank.