I've got a plugged-up fifty-year-old drywell that is a ceramic or concrete box with an iron inspection opening (about a foot in diameter). I can feel muck under five feet or so of water (no rocks in there). Am I most likely correct to think that all the water is supposed to go out the bottom of this box, and not through holes in the sides? The surrounding earth is hard-packed clay with lots of rocks, as far as I can tell. It's not damp at all. I'm trying to think of how to make or buy a low-budget tool that will pick up that muck through the inspection hole. A ten-foot pole with a scoop on the end? Is there a standard and cheap way to do this (without a big truck pumping it out)? How about the best (cheap) way to bail out the water? A pail on a rope? How much help would it be to have the thing pumped? They aren't going to get all that muck with a regular pumping, right?
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17 years ago