I have a basement sump pump which processes a significant amount of water.  My idea is to pump it into a storage tank, and then utilize this water to feed a sprinkler system.  I dont have a srpinkler system today.  Does anyone have any experience doing this?  Any thoughts / suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Mark

You don't need a huge tank to hold the water. This system and others I've looked at use a small 50-100gal surge tank and water as water is availiable. This is one system I'm looking at http://www.rewater.com/ the only item you might consider a problem is it used underground emitters, sprinklers allow a lot of the water to evaporate before it gets to the roots. Since you have a lot of water to get rid of maybe you can just use their controller to manage your sprinklers.

This would work best if you were able to pump this water uphill, and then be able to gravity feed it back down to a water hose or low pressure sprinkler system. Having to pump and then repump the water would seem to use quite a bit of electricity, but since you already have to pump it the first time to keep the basement dry, pumping uphill and gravity downhill will essentially not use a significant amount of extra electricity.