On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 13:28:01 -0400, "
wrote:




If you're on dirt, just dig an 8' deep hole at the cottage, and run
an inlet pipe to the lake, and pump from the "well". If you're
on rock, put a backflow valve at the lake end, with a hose-bib
toward the cottage. Use a hand pump through the hose-bib
to fill the pipe. Or replace the impeller pump with a piston-type
that will suck air and water both.

Why is it "impossible" to put the pump at the lake-edge?


The cottage is on a whole lot of rock - maybe 1 foot of soil in
places, if I look really closely. Every spring when the ice breaks
up, that part of the lake is exposed to the west - ice piles up and it
would damage anything located too closely to the lake shore.
It's somebody else's lake shore lot and granting access to their lot
is about as far as it goes, plus installing power there would be
difficult. Someone else (Thanks!) mentioned a step ladder. If I can
get a higher stepladder than what I've got, I might try that, on a non
windy day, but it's a bit unlevel at the lakeshore, and it's solid
rock.

Mike