On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:21:54 -0400, Dan Espen
wrote:

Arkadiy writes:

Dan Espen wrote:

Also you don't want to go too deep with the sump pump.
You'll end up trying to pump out the water table, wasting
electricity.

FWIW, I think my problem right now _is_ with the elevated water
table... otherwise where would water come from when there is no rain?

To avoid communication problems in the futu
"Water table: the planar, underground surface beneath which earth
materials, as soil or rock, are saturated with water."

The other definition says "completely saturated"

So, you don't have an elevated water table when there is rain. You
have wet ground, or maybe some more specific term, from which water is
entering your house. But the water table doesn't go up with each rain
and down afterwards.

Here's more "The American Heritage Science Dictionary - water table
The upper surface of an area filled with groundwater, separating the
zone of aeration (the subsurface region of soil and rocks in which the
pores are filled with air and usually some water) from the zone of
saturation (the subsurface region in which the pores are filled only
with water). Water tables rise and fall with seasonal moisture, water
absorption by vegetation, and the withdrawal of groundwater from
wells, among other factors. The water table is not flat but has peaks
and valleys that generally conform to the overlying land surface.
Compare potentiometric surface. "

Yes, but you don't want to pump more than you have to.
You can't pump a whole underground river out thru a 2 inch pipe.
I was respondiing to one of the other posters that seemed to be
suggesting solving the problem by just making the sump hole deeper.
That might work up to a point.