Drain plumbing will this work?

Chris Spaulding

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I am getting ready to plumb a new to me tank. It has dual overflows with a one inch drain in each overflow. Can I combine the two drains in one pipe below the stand into a 1.5 pipe so I only have one pipe going into the sump?
1 inch pipe flow rate gravity fead is 960 gph
1.5 pipe flow rate gravity fead is 2100 gpa.
Attached is a crude drawing showing what I am thinking.
Reason I am thinking this was is I am wanting to use a filter roller and the input pipe on this one is 1.5 .
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Should work but you might want to have a gate valve on each drain to balance them out.
 

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