Success, pumping, everything else
Friday, March 6, 2009, 06:00 PM
Looked at the pump this morning. It's still jammed but the Drano dissolved some of the sludge. The pump was filled with sand and gravel. I managed to shake it out and work it out with a screwdriver. Plugged it in and it turned OK after spitting out some gravel particles. I hooked up the pump to the Home Depot flower pot (irrigation control box). Got the rig all hooked up with power and plumbing then lowered the contraption into the tank. It went down inside fairly well then hooked up a short pipe aimed at the creek and turned it on. The pump worked well. Hooked everything up but had to make another Home Depot trip to get another coupling. Ran the pump and went up the hill to watch. The sewage was bubbling up from the distribution box at the top of the hill. This is good. May have to dump root killer into the distribution box to fix the leach field. I also need to find a backflow prevention valve. I have a small problem because both places where I drilled inspection holes in the pipe are shooting sewage up in the air. I covered them both up which may not have been a good idea since the lower one is oozing out of the ground. Dinner tonight was crab cakes. We skipped First Friday because I was tired and we're going out tomorrow to Met HD Butterfly and also went out last night to the Comedy Club.
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