On Thu, 18 May 2006 23:47:50 +0100, Mark Rand
wrote:

On 18 May 2006 15:21:34 -0700, wrote:

Are you sure you cant put one pump on top of the other with the outlets
offset and use the existing hole?
One pump runs but if the water is fast rising and overwhelms it or if
it fails the other kicks in.


Unfortunately the sump isn't deep enough for that either. The replacement sump
is going to be deeper, wider and longer than the one I made originally. I was
tempted to just fill the whole lot up with concrete, but since the floor is
18" below the local water table in summer I would rather not take the risk...
don't live or build a workshop with a cellar halfway down a hill on a clay
soil with bands of gravel in it :-(

Mark Rand
RTFM

When you use the term 'halfway down a hill', how much more
'downhill' do you have before you run out of your lot?

It's easy to get a backhoe and dig a long trench that starts below
basement level and ends at ground level downhill, and drop some
plastic DWV pipe in. Then the water drains out of the basement on
it's own using nothing more than good ol' reliable Gravity - and I
haven't met anyone that's either smart enough or stupid enough to
break that law yet... ;-)

You *are* pumping this free ground water out of your basement and
into a storage tank or a small pond, and using it for non-potable
things like washing the cars and watering the lawn, right?

Just do it, don't go bragging. If you don't own the water rights
to the property (as in they were sold off to a regional water board or
utility district when the property was subdivided) they might get
annoyed if they think you are stealing "their water"...

(Don't try using logic in a situation like that, they'd rather you
dump it in the sewer than do something useful with it.)

-- Bruce --

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