Not part of Mom's 2004 OPL book but I thought we'll add a few more photos as they come up.
John
The original, pre 1958 location of the water well was on the East side of Graser's garage.
| Pop's Stand Pipe Letter Jan. 2003: 6 INCH STAND PIPE It occurred to me that one reason the chlorine concentration stayed high for so long is that we have an 6 inch stand pipe in the tank outlet. The stand pipe is there to prevent sand from the well from getting into the mains and into our plumbing. It also prevented us from completely emptying the tank as we thought we were doing. Each time we thought we emptied the tank we still had a considerable quantity of water with high chlorine concentration in the tank to combine with the water being pumped in. (which also had chlorine in it). We can completely empty the tank by first doing what we did. Close that valve and then opening the 2 inch ball valve in the center - bottom of the tank. We will have to provide a plastic pipe from that location to the street in order not to kill all Bobbies trees and roses. That should be quite easy to do. If we had another hose (in addition to the one Pete is going to get us to run the water to Marian's and Rosenblats pools) we could run that water into Bobbie's pool. The amount of water is small enough that we should be able to drain it to the street though. Bob Runyard |
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