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Simpler, install the sump beside the old one and add a connecting pipe to
collect the overflow.

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On Oct 3, 3:07?am, mm wrote:
On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:58:17 -0700, "

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just install a second pit, easy to do and have 2 completely seperate
pits with two completely seperate pumps draining into 2 completely
seperate discharge lines.


But what about the feed lines to the sump? The perforated plastic
pipe that surrounds the foundation? How do you get that water into
the other sump? And without removing it from the first sump?



all redundant all the time add a batery
back up pump to one just in case.


A couple thoughts, it amazes me how many people have sump pumps that
could drain to daylight! at least in a overflow pump failure mode. if
you could, get a backhoe to dio some digging gravity is really
reliable.


another thing you should investigate why so much water in a heavy
rain? leaking downspout drain broken pipes? clogged gutters filled
with debris? could you add a french drain somewhere to minimize flow
somehow?


sump pumps work awesome, at least till they fail but you need to look
at this as a entire groundwater control system.


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generally the perforated pipe runs around the perimeter walls. so pick
a convenient spot cut concrete and break into existing line install
second sump and pump, its not high tech just hard work. digging into
concrete etc........