Quote Originally Posted by fishingpox
5000 gpm not at all hard to imagine to me. I have rebuilt and rewound so many pumps in my life, it's scary. The biggest pump motor I have wound was 10k hp, at a chemical plant in memphis. Just 4160 volts. It was a verticle like the one in that newspaper article. We had to build scaffolds inside it to wind it. In that article, the Bonds fellow was the one COE referred me to. Launches will probably go up to 10 dollars, maybe that will keep some of the lice off the lake.

Well this is my 3rd or 4th week with no fishing, I'm getting antsy.
It may be putting out 5000 gpm. The well in the article looks to be a 60, but may be a 80 hp electric motor. I am sure it is a shallow well, probably set around 90-100 ft. Looks to be a line shaft, column well and probably has a 3 stage pump on it. I just have never seen one pump that much water in my part of the world, but it maybe there.