Casbah
Muckraker
- Joined
- Jun 20, 2019
- Messages
- 45
- Reaction score
- 35
- Location
- Nashville Tennessee
- Hardiness Zone
- 6b
- Country
I woke up this morning, and is my normal routine I made my coffee and gazed out the window to the back yard to see that my fountain was not running. I went to check and after a little diagnosis I determined the pump had bitten the dust. Unexpectedly, I had a feeling of sadness as I looked at the little pump in my hand because of memories the pump triggered.
In 2010 Nashville suffered some of the worst flooding in history; 15 inches of rain in 48 hours. My house had a dug-out crawl space which promptly flooded, and I without a lot of money, found this 300gph pump at Lowes for about $25. Since this was before my ponding days, I had no idea if it would work. Sure enough, in about a day after throwing it in an estimated 6000-8000 gallons of water was out of my crawl space. Every summer when I put out the pool for my boy to play in, I would use the pump on a (home made) fountain to keep the mosquitoes down. No matter how many times I told him to leave it alone he just couldn't help himself wanting to play with it. Then there was the colossal failure of the stand-alone waterfall I tried to create out of construction debris from home building around the neighborhood. And finally this past year during the early stages of my inherited pond re-hab I used it to move water into, out of, and around the pond before it got it's last use for the koi fountain.
Goodbye little pump...
Ok, enough of that, It's in the garbage and I ordered another off Amazon.
In 2010 Nashville suffered some of the worst flooding in history; 15 inches of rain in 48 hours. My house had a dug-out crawl space which promptly flooded, and I without a lot of money, found this 300gph pump at Lowes for about $25. Since this was before my ponding days, I had no idea if it would work. Sure enough, in about a day after throwing it in an estimated 6000-8000 gallons of water was out of my crawl space. Every summer when I put out the pool for my boy to play in, I would use the pump on a (home made) fountain to keep the mosquitoes down. No matter how many times I told him to leave it alone he just couldn't help himself wanting to play with it. Then there was the colossal failure of the stand-alone waterfall I tried to create out of construction debris from home building around the neighborhood. And finally this past year during the early stages of my inherited pond re-hab I used it to move water into, out of, and around the pond before it got it's last use for the koi fountain.
Goodbye little pump...
Ok, enough of that, It's in the garbage and I ordered another off Amazon.