| Have you ever wondered how in the world a lake | | | | clean and filter them, you need to go down |
| or pond gets pumped out? Ever give any thought | | | | underneath of the fluid in order to do a proper |
| to how oil is pulled from under the ocean floor | | | | job. |
| and pumped up to the surface to be refined? | | | | If you try to go from the side or from above, |
| There are so many things that we hear about | | | | the suction won't be enough to get to all of the |
| but never really stop and give pause to. Until one | | | | fluid. You'll end up with some fluids rising to the |
| of my good friends came by the house the other | | | | top but many of them will continue to go around |
| day after work, I'd really never thought about it | | | | on the bottom. I can see where this would |
| either. I know I'd heard of submersible pumps but | | | | definitely be a problem. If you've got problems |
| that's about the extent of my knowledge on the | | | | with oil, water, sewage, you name it, the only |
| subject. I knew they existed. | | | | way to get it taken care of is from underneath |
| So my childhood friend had just left the job site | | | | the surface. This is what submersible pumps are |
| where his company was doing some work and he | | | | used for. |
| dropped by, covered in a really nasty smelling | | | | He was in a sewage well that day. He was telling |
| substance. When I opened the door he | | | | me how the pipes that fed into the well had quit |
| immediately apologized. I asked him what he had | | | | working properly so they needed to drain the |
| been doing. | | | | entire well. They did so with the use of a pump. |
| He told me he'd been working in the bottom of a | | | | Then they cleaned the well thoroughly and |
| well. I told him my well didn't smell like him, | | | | removed all deposits and yes, I mean all deposits |
| thankfully. He said it was a sewer well. This | | | | and had to temporarily close up the pipes so that |
| perplexed me, I was concerned that perhaps | | | | nothing else came out. As soon as they were |
| there were things going on in wells that I didn't | | | | done making all necessary repairs, it was |
| understand. | | | | imperative to test the pipes. Unfortunately for my |
| Since I drink a lot of water, I decided to ask my | | | | friend, he had to stay in the well when this took |
| friend exactly what he was talking about. I was | | | | place. He said without the pump working, he'd |
| quite relieved to know that there are different | | | | have been left in hot water. Well, not really hot |
| kinds of well for different kinds of water and | | | | water and not really water, but I think you get |
| other fluids. He talked about submersible pumps | | | | the point. |
| and how they get everything moving around. I | | | | When you need to remove fluid or clean fluids |
| asked him what this meant and he explained how | | | | from any container, your best bet at getting |
| when you try to drain fluids, whether to | | | | everything is to use submersible pumps. |
| completely extract them from an area or to | | | | |