Greetings everyone, I am having issues with my well housing, it floods every time we get over an inch of rain. our well casement comes up inside of a 3' deep concrete ring that is 2.5 foot buried. Inside the ring/well housing is a pressure tank. The tank feeds a few things on the property before reaching residence. we had no problems, so far as i know, until we buried an additional water line to the well housing to serve a hydrant in the garden. We took it under the housing through a sleeve and patched it onto the service. ever since then it floods every-time we get a good rain and i've been having to bail it out. I went back and re-tamped the trench and soil in the well housing; added more dirt and even added soil around the well housing to make water move around the well housing on its way down hill. Im at a loss for a permenant solution i think the soil water is moving up through the disturbed soil once significant pressure is built up in the surrounding soil. Ive gone back and retamped it several times to find it still floods. The next things i can think to try would be 1. perhaps a soil solidifier in the bottom of the well housing? this might keep the light pressure exerted by soil at bay. I have no experience with this and am not sure if its a good option or even feesable. 2. My favorite option, Install a sump pump in the well housing that can pump out the effluent The sump pump option would be nice but i would want to use the 240v well power and there are no inexpensive 240v sump pumps stateside. So im weighting my options. [B]1. I could order a light duty sump pump from europe. 2. I could step down voltage in well housing to 120 for a cheaper pump 3. I could spring for a 240v pump domestically and hate life [/B] Does the sump pump Idea seem reasonable?

I have 3 wires running down the side of a 2x2 wall stud. 14-2 and 14-3 to a 3way switch, 12-2 to a receptacle further down. The switch box is double wide to leave plenty of room for wiring the switch. This leaves the wire to the receptacle running well away from the stud. Am I allowed to run the 12-2 through the switch box so that it is a cleaner run?