WayOutWest
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I was wonder about getting both chambers pumped. Add fluorescent dye and water to the last chamber, mix, and pump. Look for the for the color in the bright sun or UV light.
That is a pretty good idea. I think that's my fallback plan now if I can't find it after a few more days of wallowing in the mud.
Too bad you cannot pressurize that one chamber and blow air. Or disconnect the pump output and blow high volume air into the transit pipe.
Well I can do that. There is a threaded PVC union in the pump chamber, where the pipe leaves the chamber. I loosened it in order to get most of the skunkwater to drain from the pipe back into the pump chamber before cutting the pipe.
My concerns here are:
- Putting air pressure into PVC is extremely dangerous. When PVC shatters with pressurized gas inside, the gas continues to expand, sending the razorshards flying. This is how kids get themselves killed with potato guns. Liquid stops expanding when the pipe breaks, which is why it's safe.
- The other end of the piece of pipe that is still connected to the pump tank is now buried underneath mud (it just rained), and it would take some pretty incredible air pressure to drive through the mud. I might not even get an identifiable airstream coming out of the ground.
- What I really need to locate is the pipe on the OTHER side of the cut -- on the downstream (drainfield) side. I know where the pump tank is and can trench a new line from there. But I can't install a new drainfield (!)