back to Heinz Homepage June 2001 Water Project
At Right: This is the hole for the water tank and pump that we installed this year. It is 7f x 10f x 5. 5f. The water is pumped from the tank using a pump that switches on and off automatically when we use water in the house.
Above: Lowering the 1000 gallon stainless steel tank into the hole. We found a firm to make this tank and deliver it, but they wouldn't lower it into the hole for us. They recommended that we hire a crane. But the cranes here wouldn't fit through our front gate to get to the work area. We decided to do it by hand. Javeet (our neighbor) rounded up some men who were working on the small store near our house and we lowered the tank without any mishaps!
Below Left: With the tank in place it became a great place for the kids to play. I still needed to build an access shaft, do the plumbing, and cover everything.
Below Right: This is Peter the plumber, 1 of of a pair of Russian speaking plumbers that spent 8 days with us plumbing the tank, replumbing our house, and adding outside faucets. The tank fills at night when there is enough pressure to fill our water main with water. A toilet float valve turns the water off automatically when the tank is full. The pressure is better 3 feet underground where the top of the tank is. Even so, on some days no water comes into the tank. Without the tank, we would have no water at tap level in the house for most of the summer.
Below Left: Noah stands beside the finished access shaft to the tank., pump, and plumbing, Praise God! Now we have enough water and pressure to take showers for the first time in 3 years!
Below Right: This is the access shaft to the tank. You can see the German (Grundfos) pump at the bottom of the hole. It took us 2 years to find local firm that sells this kind of pump.
