The drought continues, the rains still just a memory, and the lake, our lake continues, to recede! We are now down over four feet! The “dribbles” coming out of our sprinkler system alerted me to a potential problem! I went down to the dock and looked at the water pickup off the end of our dock…and sure enough it was sitting on top of the water…not good for the pump!
I turned it off!
Today we ran the pickup line further out into the lake…another twenty feet! The channel in our cove is usually about twelve feet in the middle (now down to eight feet!) so that “should “take care of the problem (until the lake is dry…”can that happen?”).Now the point!
When we put the sprinkler system in the water was up four feet and the neighborhood alligator was “patrolling” the cove. Needless to say the installers were “wary!” They “watchfully” installed the pickup line off the dock. Today they carefully “waded” out and made the necessary adjustment, a 90 ° elbow to a twenty foot extension to another 90° up to the inlet screen…cleaned out some of the valves and we were up and running.
Oh…and no alligator in site!
We are back to watering...until??
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