when pumping from a lake you will be pumping uphill
centrifugal pumps are susceptible to over loading because operators do not realize that water has mass and weighs a lot and the pump has to things to contend with
first lifting the water from the lake ( lift height)
the volume of water in the suction pipe will load the motor
now that it successfully lifts that water mas up it now has to push it up hill to a receiving tank of some sort
now distance to that tank ( friction in the pipe ) and height up to the tank inlet ( head pressure and it is measured as the height the discharge pipe is above the pump level --not ground level) have to be considered
unless you are a hydraulic engineer or have the equipment installed by irrigation experts all of this information will be foreign to you and that will result in too small a pump and yes it will overheat and in cases the water in the pump will boil as energy from the impeller of the pump has to go somewhere if the water is not moving
what I am suggesting here is to get pump experts involved to design a proper system with sufficient hp motor and pump volume to do the job
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