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Originally Posted by Garcia
I ended up replacing the pump and in the process redid all the piping and connections as over the past decades many repairs had been made and the system was pretty scabbed together. Since the system was drained, I moved the intake out much deeper and put in a connection at the shore.
If I leave the pipe in over the winter, do I need to drain the part of the pipe in the water or will leaving it disconnected and open (loosely covered to prevent animals from storing acorns in the pipe) suffice? Or, do I need to haul up the foot valve and release the water? Sorry if this seems a dumb question - for decades I have always pulled the pipe and released the foot valve so it seems odd not to - but having to do so kind of defeats the point of leaving the pipe in the lake over the winter.
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If the remaining pipe and foot valve are going to stick up through the ice you may lose it when the ice recedes in the spring.
I disconnect the pipe at the shoreline, cover the opening, and drop it to the lake bed. It is deep enough at the end of my dock so it will not freeze. In the spring I just grab the pipe off of the bottom with a rake and reconnect it.