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Murray River Piggeries Three piggeries that draw their water from the very polluted Murray River in South Australia have until recently always had a problem with solids blocking up their systems and sows not drinking properly.
John & Jill Lunn are ecstatic about the benefits they have gained by using the water.
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The Lunns, who have a 110-sow piggery, also run cattle and produce oranges. “We pump our water from the Murray River, which is not very good at the best of times,” John said.
It is very heavy in solids and has quite a bit of coliform bacteria in it. We were getting a lot of trouble with these solids, not
being able to get them out, and they were blocking filters and sows were not drinking properly. What this Grander Water has done for us mostly, is to enable the solids to drop out.
“It's now dropping out in the tanks and we are getting clear water, so that has been a big plus, we are not getting blocked nipples and the stock are drinking better and therefore they are eating better.
“There has been an improvement on smell and there has been more activity in the pond, showing that the oxygen is getting in there and doing good. We actually pump this water out about 10km for cattle and there is a definite reduction in slime and stuff that normally grows on your tanks and troughs. You can’t really explain what it does, but it does something.”
“It's now dropping out in the tanks and we are getting clear water, so that has been a big plus, we are not getting blocked nipples and the stock are drinking better and therefore they are eating better.
“There has been an improvement on smell and there has been more activity in the pond, showing that the oxygen is getting in there and doing good. We actually pump this water out about 10km for cattle and there is a definite reduction in slime and stuff that normally grows on your tanks and troughs. You can’t really explain what it does, but it does something.”