Thanks for the great suggestions, very much appreciate the helpful information. we are going to test submerging the outflow and see if we can throttle this first before downsizing it. Will post result when it's been tested.
Thanks for the input. No grate on the inflow, water is clean enough and flows hard enough that we have not had problems with debris in the 12" pipe. We have tried throttling it with the gate valve at the outflow but if we get it turned down enough to meet the lower flow objective, it always...
We are trying to design a smaller reservoir siphon to replace a 12" ID siphon that flows much higher than is desired on this site. The siphon works well and is HDPE fusion pipe and we intend to use the same design and material that currently works but in a smaller pipe size but am not sure I...