Water Lifted By Compressed Air
For Municipal, Manufacturing, Irrigation or Other Water Supply

If you will advise us fully as to the type and size of your engine and boiler plant, kind and cost of fuel, and all other data that you have pertaining to your power plant, with available information re- garding the underground water supply, we will probably be able to make you a proposition that will show a clear saving of from 15 to 50 per cent, of your fuel bill, at an additional cost that will show a return on the investment of from 10 to 50 per cent. S&nd Is No Obstacle. Almost all wells are troubled to a greater or less extent with in- flowing sand. This sand, mixing with the water, cuts out suction and deep well pumps in a very short time, causing much annoyance, Water Works at Charleston, S. C. delay and expense. It has no effect on the Air Lift, however, as sand and gravel in the water form no obstacle and do not interfere with its action. This was demonstrated very effectually at the Charleston, S. C., water works, where over 200 tons of quicksand were pumped from a single well. At another place several cartloads of pebbles and stones were pumped out of a well using 3-inch. water pipe, some of the stones being 2 1-4 inches in diameter by 4 inches long. The illustration on this page shows the Charleston station, the piles of sand being 8 feet high, in places and extending over much of the yard. This is a deep well, sunk at great expense, and originally yielding but 103 gallons per minute. Two months’ pumping with the Air Lift exhausted the quicksand, when the well yielded 250 gallons per minute of pure and clear water. Tn this case there is another well a mile away which starts and stops with the compressor without attention.