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Graham

On 2018-08-27 9:09 AM, wrote:
> On Monday, August 27, 2018 at 9:34:24 AM UTC-5, Nancy2 wrote:
>>
>> Cindy, sump pumps, if included in the original plans, add very little to the cost. They are
>> engineered and designed to turn on automatically when ground water trips a certain monitor,
>> do their magic, and then turn off. They may repeat this routine on a regular basis many times
>> in a rainy season. If placed correctly, the home resident never hears it operate. It generally
>> drains to the exterior so that it runs off away from the house.
>>
>> N.
>>
> I have a sump pump in my dugout basement and live on a 'wet weather' spring.
> Only time my pump comes on is when we've had an inordinate amount of rain.
> It pumps and shoots that water out into the alley. If not for this pump
> my basement would look like a small lake.
>
The main city reservoir is only a few hundred yards from my sub-division
and we are a good 100' above the water level. In spite of that, I have a
sump pump as there are gravel "strings" through the neighbourhood from
higher ground (a relic of the last Ice Age). However, the pump is only
necessary in June, our rainiest month, when the water table creeps up.
One house a couple of blocks away has a sump pump that goes pretty
constantly as it is right on a gravel stringer.
Otherwise my basement is dry and I have my workshop down there as well
as the laundry pair.