Busted Pump

[snousle]

I hate it when things screw up. Our water went brownish for a while due to what I think was an influx of dissolved organic material, which was unsightly but not otherwise a problem as far as I can tell. But the spring is running clear again, while our tanks were full of this brown stuff, so I flushed out the upper tank, waited for it to refill, and then proceeded to flush the lower tank by pumping it out with a sump pump. The tank was nearly empty when I decided to turn it off and finish emptying it in the morning. Unfortunately, unbeknownst to me the hose continued to siphon water through the pump while it was off, so in a few hours the tank was empty. This caused the pressure booster pump to run dry and overheat. Bill discovered this late at night, and said the pumphouse was full of steam.

Ooops, there's $400 up in smoke. Coulda had dinner at the freaking French Laundry. John is out getting a new pump now, and hopefully a $40 rebuild kit will rescue the overheated one.

Hard to get things done, when random crises eat up entire days like that. It's fortunate that there's sufficient funds and three of us on hand to deal with things, at least until things get settled down and running smoothly. Which, by the way, is a very long process.