Water pickup vs anchoring

[The Real BigGuy]

Originally Posted by Garcia

Curious how many leave the water line in all year, and for those who do, any issues with foot valve? Just check it when the water warms up?

I dove down to clean the brass foot valve strainer once and found the it had basically disintegrated but the valve itself was in good order. I pulled the line up and replaced the valve assembly from a small boat making sure not to get air in the line. At that point the valve was about 15 or so years old. My line was buried from the house to the shore line. One year, late in the fall at low water, I cut the line after it exited the shore and installed quick connect fittings so I could drain the line from the house to the water the cap it to keep critters out. I’d cap the lake side pipe (black poly) and bend it around to my dock & sink it in 8 - 10 ft of water.

I got sick of the whole process & with hauling drinking water and installed a deep well pump in the lake & a UV treatment system with a couple of inline filters. No particulate in what comes out of the tap & no back ache from hauling 5 gl jugs.


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