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High water table question
Your " standpipe" is 3" up water was 2" up you were real close to a
flood. Raise the pipe, concrete the base and get a screw cap to seal it. Open it for watering or putting a pump down it, you have a very high table, you may need pumping at different times. |
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High water table question
m Ransley wrote: Your " standpipe" is 3" up water was 2" up you were real close to a flood. Raise the pipe, concrete the base and get a screw cap to seal it. Open it for watering or putting a pump down it, you have a very high table, you may need pumping at different times. As I said in my other post, the water never came out of the pipe, but it did come up through the floor in the corners. So even if I did cap the pipe and concrete the base, water would still come up. I called the dept of public works yesterday, and they have a monitoring well about a mile away from my house about the same grade where I live. They said back in Sept, the last time they took a reading, they measured water at 7 feet below street level, which kind of made sense because my basement floor is 5 feet below street level, and plus the 2 feet below that is the water line in my pipe, equals 7 feet. I asked the engineer if that was normal, he said yes. I guess it somewhat answered my question. I just wanted to make sure my house does not sink one day. |
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