Our teams attempt at pumping water at Lava

Well, we backed my mule carrying my water pump between the pumphouse and the river. We put that 3" green drafting hose into the river, the yellow 2 1/2" fire hose is connected to the pipe inside the pumphose that used to carry water up to Lava tank.


This photo shows the pumphouse and the 400' mountainside we were planning to pump water through almost a half mile of 3" pipe.


This is how far we got before we found the first leak, almost 10', not looking good for that old pipe.


This is the mudhole in the ground created by water squirting out of the leaky pipe.

Looks like we got some work to do here......