How much flow / pressure should this ring compressor have? Is there a way to measure either of these values. It was replaced several years ago, the original one lasted 10+ years. I recently installed a new aeration stone in the septic tank but it seems like it should be bubbling better. My effluent has an odor to it so I suspect I’m not getting enough aeration. TexasFire [img]https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.doityourselft.com-vbulletin/2000x1504/b8ded7ec_ba03_43d1_9793_8f3a5c27d969_acebcf3afdfd80638498969d51aca954243a7bad.jpeg[/img]

Hi everyone, I recently purchased a house on an island in rural Nova Scotia. It is at least 85 years old and has a dug well lined with rocks. The well is not open to the surface. It has a large rock slab on top and then a metre or two (6feet) of ground. I assume the well is as old as the house. The well is just outside the foundation of the house. you access it via a small opening in the unfinished basement through the concrete basement walls (foundation walls). It has a jet pump with a small tank that has a bladder. It has a "Home Plumber - Professional Series" label. I think it is sold by the Canadian hardware store "Home Hardware". The pump draws water from the well via a 3" (I think) PVC pipe that has a foot valve. All this works well and I have more water than I need. My problem is I have too much water. The basement has a some of the floor covered roughly with concrete. It runs slightly downhill from the well. Where there is just bare earth I could see that water had obviously run over the ground to the drain at the lower end. This December when I stayed in the cottage for the first time, I saw where the water was coming from. My cup runneth over! The well is filling all the way up and overflowing into the basement! I would like to concrete the rest of the floor but obviously would like to not have it flood with water every rainy season. I have power in the house so I was thinking to dump an additional sump pump into the well together with some sort of level switch to turn it on when it gets close to the top and drain it for a bit just to keep it a foot or so below the basement floor. There is a drain at the far end that drains out down the hill. I do not think I will need a pump as strong as the well pump because when we are using the water we seem to keep the water level below the floor. It is just when we are not there consuming water that it overflows. Any recommendations as to a pump and a switching method (with some hysteresis to avoid it turning on and off too frequently) would be appreciated. I am a very handy person competent enough to carry out any electrical or plumbing work. The access to the well is via a very small, shoulder width, hole in the foundation wall (4) so my thinking is that it might be easier to put a second pipe into the well rather than try to mount a pump in there. Space is very limited and I really don't like the spiders I found around the entrance to the well! :) Key to my little drawing: 1- Water level when being used. 2- Water level when it overflows. 3- Pump. 4- Entrance to dug well. 5- Drain to outside. 6- Basement floor. Thanks for reading, Dennis [img]https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.doityourselft.com-vbulletin/2000x1550/sideview_e95ff7b5f1f8d0ff53ecf4d88637272c4f81a8cc.jpeg[/img] [i]The system[/i] [img]https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.doityourselft.com-vbulletin/2000x948/setup_54a935999464981f3660828453d50ba449bd0b4e.jpeg[/img] [i]Yup, it's old. Those are actual logs holding up the floor. Again, crazy plumbing.[/i] [img]https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.doityourselft.com-vbulletin/2000x948/pumpandtank_4b340dd52a217304cfb3e22b407fd3aa8ea7bdee.jpeg[/img] [i]No comments on the plumbing or electrical. :) It is not my handy work! I will be fixing it all.[/i] [img]https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.doityourselft.com-vbulletin/2000x948/wellentrance_dc4712880fcbb5ecda8a8a9c7df05f7091b081dd.jpeg[/img] [i]Entrance to the well. I can just fit my shoulders in there. Shows the drain to the outside.[/i] [img]https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.doityourselft.com-vbulletin/940x2000/well02_b6679b6fef98b6279cad75a706e7fa6f56481641.jpeg[/img] [i]Photo of the well in the summer with the water low.[/i] [img]https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.doityourselft.com-vbulletin/2000x948/foot_c3ba504183c57b63960219ea81a3a76649b06133.jpeg[/img] [i]The rather shady foot valve that I need to replace.[/i]