With the help of my slightly resistant assistant (he had to put the controller down to the XBox 360)......
I have learned a few things.
FIRST, the water appears to only drain about 1/4-1/3 of the way down in the overflows. This is true on both sides. And....it doesn't appear to even go all of the way down to the grate looking thingies.
SECOND, the water that feeds the back of the sump (where the water is SUPPOSED to come into the sump) stops running after several seconds.
THIRD, (and though they say three's the charm, I have my doubts here) the two elbowed pipes that are SUPPOSED to be pulling water back out of the sump and into the tank via the external pump, in fact, begin to back siphon into the sump.
I waited until the eleventh hour, so to speak, right before it was getting ready to overflow the sump before I had Tyler plug the external pump back in the power source.
What next? (other than the pending doom and panic feeling that I am slowly feeling creep up on me)
Oh.....and to answer your question Barbara from earlier as to the location of Monticello. Its basically the sticks. If you are looking at a map of GA. Run I20 eastbound, out through Lithonia, Conyers and Covington. When you get to Hwy 11 (which is also the turn off for Monroe and Social Circle, just in the opposite direction), run southbound for about 30 minutes and you will be in Monticello. Its where they filmed My Cousin Vinny. We sit between Lake Jackson, Lake Sinclair and Lake Oconee (yet I am land locked?). If you are running 75 southbound out of Atlanta, you would come down into the Forsyth exits and take 83 eastbound and in about 20 minutes you would be in Monticello. I'm north of Macon, south of Locust Grove off of 75.
I have learned a few things.
FIRST, the water appears to only drain about 1/4-1/3 of the way down in the overflows. This is true on both sides. And....it doesn't appear to even go all of the way down to the grate looking thingies.
SECOND, the water that feeds the back of the sump (where the water is SUPPOSED to come into the sump) stops running after several seconds.
THIRD, (and though they say three's the charm, I have my doubts here) the two elbowed pipes that are SUPPOSED to be pulling water back out of the sump and into the tank via the external pump, in fact, begin to back siphon into the sump.
I waited until the eleventh hour, so to speak, right before it was getting ready to overflow the sump before I had Tyler plug the external pump back in the power source.
What next? (other than the pending doom and panic feeling that I am slowly feeling creep up on me)
Oh.....and to answer your question Barbara from earlier as to the location of Monticello. Its basically the sticks. If you are looking at a map of GA. Run I20 eastbound, out through Lithonia, Conyers and Covington. When you get to Hwy 11 (which is also the turn off for Monroe and Social Circle, just in the opposite direction), run southbound for about 30 minutes and you will be in Monticello. Its where they filmed My Cousin Vinny. We sit between Lake Jackson, Lake Sinclair and Lake Oconee (yet I am land locked?). If you are running 75 southbound out of Atlanta, you would come down into the Forsyth exits and take 83 eastbound and in about 20 minutes you would be in Monticello. I'm north of Macon, south of Locust Grove off of 75.
