Where The Wind Takes Us... One Doggie Field After Another

Been busy at Joe's lately, we had a water issue. There are 2 sump pumps, one flows the water from one side of the crawlspace to the other side, and the 2nd pump is in the backyard near the house (where the water from the other pump is) it sends the water out to a drain field the previous owners put in.

We had 2 problems. The 1st sump pump under the house quit working. The 2nd pump the drain field is clogged, and it will not take any more water.
This pic is the 2nd pump. That is a 32gal garbage can in the ground. At the bottom of the can is a bucket that the sump pump is in.


We put 25ft of pipe above ground to pump the water out with the 2nd pump.
This is 48 hours of the sump pump running constantly.


Fortunately after 48hrs of pumping, the water line in the crawl space was low enough to have some dry spots. Here is a shot of the water line. I forgot to take a pic when the water was high, but the water was about an inch above the concrete... just enough for the post to soak in it. The insulation on the heat ducts used to not sag like that.

This is the 1st pump. Taken after draining the area a bit. You can see the water line on the concrete. I put in a new pump. (I have not yet checked to see if it is just the switch that went bad)


When we lived there, we rented a backhoe and put in a french drain, so I am going to pipe the 2nd pump over to our drain field for the roof drainage and a french drain for the driveway. I was going to work on it this morning, but the ground was frozen, so I decided to wait. I have the above ground pipe for now. The 2nd pump was running when I was there. no hurry at this point.