Solar Pump Ensures Water

When Goomburra district beef cattle producer Syd Telford glances at the sun wending its way across the Darling Down skies he can rest assured its working for him to provide a reliable supply of stock water. 

A combination of the sun and a solar tracking borehole pumping system means cattle on the Telford’s 158 hectare property won’t go thirsty through such mishaps as a windmill or pump motor breakdown. 

Syd and his wife, Lesley, use a 525 watt solar tracing system, which powers a submersible pump, to lift water from a 49 metre deep bore to a 45,000 litre tank, from where the precious resource is gravity fed to troughs in a series of different paddocks. 

The Telford’s installed their solar tracking system with guidance from the Total Eden Group’s Warwick branch. “We are very happy with the good advice we were provided when installing the system and also with the excellent after sales service provided by the company,” Syd said. “They certainly are not the sort of people to just sell something and then forget about you. We know we can always go back there for guidance with this or any future equipment we require.”