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Part of the water supply for the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park is taken from the Colorado River [54]. A flow rate of 600 gpm taken from the river at elevation 3734 ft is pumped to a storage tank atop the South Rim at 7022 ft elevation. Part of the pipeline is above ground and part is in a hole directionally drilled at angles up to 70° from the vertical; the total pipe length is approximately 13,200 ft. Under steady-flow operating conditions, the frictional head loss is 290 ft of water in addition to the static lift. Estimate the diameter of the commercial steel pipe in the system. Compute the pumping power requirement if the pump efficiency is 61 percent.
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