Sure looks like the way you dug it out… is channeling the water… back towards your house??
Moist-Matter-2037
Well, first step is to make sure the water is moving away from your house. Looks like it’s pooling at that drain and just flowing back to your crawl space. Can you trench it to the street or somewhere else?
joshmoney
I’d rather it do that than not be pumping at all
Flat-Mycologist-3839
Channel away from any structures to start and then backfill with gravel
cybertruck_
your pump should discharge to an area that slopes away from the dwelling
bigkutta
Where does the water drain out to? Looks like its going right back in…..then right back out,,,,repeat
Either-Mushroom-5926
You can drop a submersible pump there and direct the hose away from the house as a temporary solution.
But like someone else said, it looks like you dug it out towards your house? Why not the other direction?
No_Impression5858
Plants take up water… they stop things like this from happening… perhaps rewind your yard or plant some trees
C-Fourr
Build alittle thank you shrine to your sub pump
Emptynest09
Check the check valve on the pump to make sure the water isn’t flowing back into the sump.
brismyth
Could be your water main. This happened to me with the first and main clue being the sump pump ran every 60-90 seconds.
TheBarnacleGoose
You need to get down in the crawl space asap and make sure the sump-pit is not overflowing and the pump running correctly.
I can’t tell for sure from the video, but is the water on the surface causing the flap to close? Create more room for the escaping water to run out and away.
PublicWolf7234
Doing its job. Consider buying a back up pump. Depending on age, you might need one sooner than later. You should cut a drain and force the water down and away from discharge pipe. Add pvc perf pipe, drain rock and cover.
Sometime you should inspect crawl space and find low spot. In spring or summer or crawl space is dry enough. Dig down to bottom of foundation and go outside to finish digging under to place a pipe and elbow with a vertical pipe back into crawl space. Go lower the sump base. Extend trench to low spot, dig rock pit, fill with drain rock to dispose of water. Dig a pit around vertical pipe in crawl space, add drain rock and water should gravity drain via new pipe. This may take care of your excess water, or at least ease the use of sump pump. Lots of work.
OzarksExplorer
Have y’all gotten enough precipitation in the last 24hrs to trigger the pump? If not, where’s the water coming from? Pop your head in the crawlspace and see if your water main popped.
Sapere_aude75
Are you sure it’s groundwater? If your sure it’s not just recycling back into itself, then it’s probably a water line. Maybe main line coming from the well or street, interior plumbing line, irrigation line, etc…
Aggressive_Donut2488
My house… I’d grab a short garden hose and make a siphon to get this water well away from the pop-up drain. That would be my first step. After that, you can see what’s going on and where the water that’s pumped out is going
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Sure looks like the way you dug it out… is channeling the water… back towards your house??
Well, first step is to make sure the water is moving away from your house. Looks like it’s pooling at that drain and just flowing back to your crawl space. Can you trench it to the street or somewhere else?
I’d rather it do that than not be pumping at all
Channel away from any structures to start and then backfill with gravel
your pump should discharge to an area that slopes away from the dwelling
Where does the water drain out to? Looks like its going right back in…..then right back out,,,,repeat
You can drop a submersible pump there and direct the hose away from the house as a temporary solution.
But like someone else said, it looks like you dug it out towards your house? Why not the other direction?
Plants take up water… they stop things like this from happening… perhaps rewind your yard or plant some trees
Build alittle thank you shrine to your sub pump
Check the check valve on the pump to make sure the water isn’t flowing back into the sump.
Could be your water main. This happened to me with the first and main clue being the sump pump ran every 60-90 seconds.
You need to get down in the crawl space asap and make sure the sump-pit is not overflowing and the pump running correctly.
I can’t tell for sure from the video, but is the water on the surface causing the flap to close? Create more room for the escaping water to run out and away.
Doing its job. Consider buying a back up pump. Depending on age, you might need one sooner than later. You should cut a drain and force the water down and away from discharge pipe. Add pvc perf pipe, drain rock and cover.
Sometime you should inspect crawl space and find low spot. In spring or summer or crawl space is dry enough. Dig down to bottom of foundation and go outside to finish digging under to place a pipe and elbow with a vertical pipe back into crawl space. Go lower the sump base. Extend trench to low spot, dig rock pit, fill with drain rock to dispose of water. Dig a pit around vertical pipe in crawl space, add drain rock and water should gravity drain via new pipe. This may take care of your excess water, or at least ease the use of sump pump. Lots of work.
Have y’all gotten enough precipitation in the last 24hrs to trigger the pump? If not, where’s the water coming from? Pop your head in the crawlspace and see if your water main popped.
Are you sure it’s groundwater? If your sure it’s not just recycling back into itself, then it’s probably a water line. Maybe main line coming from the well or street, interior plumbing line, irrigation line, etc…
My house… I’d grab a short garden hose and make a siphon to get this water well away from the pop-up drain. That would be my first step. After that, you can see what’s going on and where the water that’s pumped out is going
Here a photo with more context: https://ibb.co/JLjX2Zf
Should I just dig a hole around the drain, add some cloth, and fill with rocks ?