Check out the chart below. So far we’ve been in 388 earthquakes! Man! It would be an understatement to say we’ve been shaken, not stirred!
If you look below, We live where the white arrow is. That’s how close we are to the fault line. Crazy stuff!
Archive for September 11th, 2010
The new pump shed nearly complete!
A bit of painting to do and we’ll sort a garden around it, but the pump shed is almost done, and most importantly – we have water!
17mm treated ply bolted to the old steel tank tower frame. Was a bugger cutting ply to skewed trapezoid shapes! Should be nice and solid. Just the edge strips and door left to do.
Here’s the new pump and filter. The white cylinder is a 20 micron particulate filter I added to remove most of the sediment. The Aquifer is still a little dirty and if the sediment gets to the house it ruins the ceramics and fittings.
The new system is high pressure (we had low) but when connected, a number of joints leaked (below ground too…). They couldn’t handle the load 😉 So there’s been a good number of small leaks we’ve needed to fix.
The end result though is that we now have a 13,650 litre storage tank and high pressure house supply with awesome tap and shower pressure!
A few loose ends to tidy but should be all finished by next week!
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