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<br />. <br /> <br />NOTES ON SUMP PUMP INSPECTION; <br /> <br />I. Arden Hills has been trying for over 20 years to encoumge the voluntaIy compliance with sump pump <br />regulations.this has been the only partially successful. Some Villagers apparently feel that it is better <br />to pay for the excess water flowing into the sanitaIy sewer than to put up with the inconveniences of <br />complying. <br /> <br />2. Enforced sump pump regulation compliance produces problems that are known to some conununities <br />and unrecoguized by other communities. Commonly, during freeze thaw cycles in the outlet freezes <br />over rcgardless of how it is installed. This results in no water being pumped from around tlle <br />basement, or a bumed-{lut sump pump. <br /> <br />3. When this happens, residents have only one option, to become a scoff-law and install a temporary <br />bypass. Sometimes this bypass becomes a permanent bypass. I have seen tltis scenario probably 100 <br />times. <br /> <br />4. At least one community has solved this dilemma by offering winter variances that allow temporary <br />bypasses to the sanitaIy sewer. Illegal connections were reduced. <br /> <br />5. Can the Arden Hills council solve this problem, so that the residents are not forced into an illegal <br />situation to protect their houses? <br /> <br />Robert L. Wouldburn <br />1220 Ingerson Court <br />(not a sump pump owner) <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />I <br />I. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />) <br />